Key facts
- Librettist
- Richard Wagner
- Language
- German
- Based on
- Nordic and German legends
- Premiere
- 16 August 1876 ( 1876-08-16 ) , Bayreuth Festspielhaus
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Der Ring des Nibelungen
- Genre
- opera
- Based on
- Norse mythology
- Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Librettist
- Richard Wagner
- Image
- Siegfried (tenore), figurino di Carl Emil Doepler per Siegfried (1876) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON004001.jpg
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- language of work or name
- German
- Commons category
- Siegfried (opera)
- Commons gallery
- Siegfried
- date of first performance
- 1876-08-16
- title
- Siegfried
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- location of first performance
- Bayreuth Festival Theatre
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- opera
- catalog code
- 86C
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Encyclopedic overview
Siegfried ( German: [ˈziːk.fʀiːt] ), WWV 86C, is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle.
The autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in the Richard Wagner Foundation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siegfried” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.