2004 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s Rein Gold reconstructs the events of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day.
Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera,
Rein Gold is a ‘buhnenessay’, an essay for the stage, structured in the form of a dialogue between Wotan, father of the gods, and his favourite daughter, Brunnhilde, in the third act of
The Valkyrie.
