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