Das Rheingold at Wiener Staatsoper

In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhine maidens guard the gold. Alberich, the Lord of the Nibelung who tries in vain to win one of the three girls to sees the gold and first learns that to rob the gold only on the love abschwörte be, and secondly, that a ring forged from this gold would give immense power to the institution. So, Alberich curses love and himself steals the gold. Now, he will be dangerous for all. Also have allow gods who himself built a new abode - Valhalla - just from giant. Wotan, the Supreme all gods, the giant price the goddess Freia promised. The problem is, that only those apples grow Freia and reap eternal youth can give. So, the gods are looking for an alternative price the Giants could enter Fasolt and Fafner. Lodge, the cunning God of fire finds the way out: he tells silly ego gold robbery and power gain. The Giants are willing to redeem Freia against the gold treasure, so Wotan and Loge go Nibeln home, in the underground Empire of silly self. When they arrive in Nibeln home, MIME, the brother of silly ego, just with the production of a cloak of invisibility that is capable to transform the wearer into any form is completed. Lodge leads Alberich, to demonstrate his skills. When he turned into a toad, pack it the gods and haul it away with her. Alberich must pay with stealth and ring for his freedom, but he cursed the ring: he should bring its owner except power death and misfortune. Wotan reluctantly passes on to the giant the Lair, the ring but on appeal of the goddess Erda, which warns of the misery that the ring will bring. Freia is solved, the curse on the ring starts to work but already: Fafner kills Fasolt, because they cannot agree, the ring now should be to whom. In spite of the gods involve in the new abode...