This role was performed by Klaus Florian Vogt alongside Catherine Foster in a pair of 2024 performances conducted by Simone Young. This tenor (-5[1])character and his lover praise “radiant love, laughing death!” on a mountaintop, and later sing a love duet at dawn after the Rope of Destiny breaks. (15[1]-5[1])As a birthday present (-5[1])to his wife Cosima, a composer wrote an Idyll (-5[1])titled for this character. (15[6]-5[1])This (15[1])character (-5[1])understands (15[1])a (*) woodbird (10[1])after tasting the blood (10[1])of (-5[1])a (-5[1])dragon (10[1]-5[3])he slayed with (10[1])Nothung. (10[7]-5[6])This character’s (10[2])leitmotif, (10[4])a difficult (-5[1])ten-note horn solo, (10[1])is heard as he journeys down the Rhine river. (-5[1])After this character is stabbed (10[2])in the back by Hagen (10[1])(“hah-gun”), the (10[1])opera Götterdämmerung ends (10[1])with the self-immolation of his lover Brünnhilde. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])name this hero who titles the third opera in Richard (10[1])Wagner’s (10[1])Ring Cycle. (10[4]0[1])■END■ (10[9]0[3])