Premiere of Götterdämmerung

Date: August 17, 1876 • Location: Bayreuth, Germany

The premiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first Bayreuth Festival.

Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the whole work.