Dreams of the Dead: Part 12/13 Nibelung Cycle "Funeral Pyre"
Brünnhilde makes her entrance and takes charge of events (the Immolation Scene). Brünnhilde issues orders for a huge funeral pyre to be assembled by the river. She sends Wotan's ravens home with "anxiously longed-for tidings."; they fly off. She takes the ring and tells the Rhine maidens to claim it from her ashes, once fire has cleansed it of its curse. The pyre lit, Brünnhilde mounts her horse Grane and rides into the flames. The fire flares up as the Rhine overflows its banks, and the Rhinemaidens swim in to claim the ring. Hagen tries to stop them but they drown him. The hall of the Gibichungs collapses. As the flames increase in intensity, Valhalla comes into view in the sky, and the Gods, seated within it. As the Rhinemaidens celebrate the return of the ring and its gold to the river, flames flare up in the Hall of the Gods, finally hiding it and them from sight completely.
Brünnhilde makes her entrance and takes charge of events (the Immolation Scene). Brünnhilde issues orders for a huge funeral pyre to be assembled by the river. She sends Wotan's ravens home with "anxiously longed-for tidings."; they fly off. She takes the ring and tells the Rhine maidens to claim it from her ashes, once fire has cleansed it of its curse. The pyre lit, Brünnhilde mounts her horse Grane and rides into the flames. The fire flares up as the Rhine overflows its banks, and the Rhinemaidens swim in to claim the ring. Hagen tries to stop them but they drown him. The hall of the Gibichungs collapses. As the flames increase in intensity, Valhalla comes into view in the sky, and the Gods, seated within it. As the Rhinemaidens celebrate the return of the ring and its gold to the river, flames flare up in the Hall of the Gods, finally hiding it and them from sight completely.