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. (-5[1])As a birthday present to his wife Cosima, a composer wrote an Idyll titled for this character. (15[1])This character (-5[1])understands a (*) woodbird after tasting the blood of a dragon he slayed with Nothung. (10[2])This character’s leitmotif, (10[3])a difficult ten-note horn solo, is heard as he journeys down the Rhine river. After this character is stabbed in the back by Hagen (“hah-gun”), the opera Götterdämmerung ends with the self-immolation of his lover Brünnhilde. For 10 points, (10[1])name this hero who titles the third opera in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. ■END■ (10[2])