Years have passed and Siegfried, child of Siegmund and Sieglinde (Sieglinde having died in childbirth), has been brought up in the care of the dwarf Mime, Alberich’s brother. The climax of Act I is a forging scene when Siegfried, with Mime plotting and scheming  in the background, reforges his father’s sword, Nothung. (Conclusion of the first act…

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