The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. The Ring of the Niblung, part 1

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Рихард Вагнер

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Зарубежная классика

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2018

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A voice! It grows dark!

FLOSSHILDE

Who listens below?

[They dive down and see the Nibelung.

WOGLINDE AND WELLGUNDE

Fie! the loathsome one!

The frolic of the Rhine-Maidens.

FLOSSHILDE [Swimming up quickly.

Look to the gold!
Father warned us
Of such a foe.

[Both the others follow her, and all three gather quickly round the central rock.

ALBERICH

You above there!

THE THREE RHINE-MAIDENS

What wouldst thou below there?

ALBERICH

Do I spoil sport
By standing and gazing here?
Dived ye but deeper,
Fain the Niblung
Would join in your frolic and play.

WELLGUNDE

He wishes to join us?

WOGLINDE

Is he in jest?

ALBERICH

Ye gleam above me
So glad and fair!
If one would only
Glide down, how close in my arms
Fondly clasped she would be!

FLOSSHILDE

I laugh at my fears:
The foe is in love.

WELLGUNDE

The amorous imp!

WOGLINDE

Let us approach him.

[She sinks down to the top of the rock, whose base Alberich has reached.

ALBERICH

Lo! one of them comes!

WOGLINDE

Climb up to me here!

ALBERICH

[Climbs with gnome-like agility, though with repeated checks, to the summit of the rock. Irritably.

Horrid rock,
So slippery, slimy!
I slide and slip!
My hands and feet vainly
Attempt to hold on
To the slithery surface!
Vapour damp
Fills up my nostrils—
Accursed sneezing!

[He has got near Woglinde.

WOGLINDE [Laughing.

Sneezing tells
That my suitor comes!

ALBERICH

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