Der Ring Des Nibelungen - List of Characters

List of Characters

Gods Mortals Valkyries Rhinemaidens, Giants & Nibelungs Other characters
  • Wotan, King of the Gods (god of light, air, and wind) (bass-baritone)
  • Fricka, Wotan's wife, goddess of marriage (mezzo-soprano)
  • Freia, Fricka's sister, goddess of love, youth, and beauty (soprano)
  • Donner, Fricka's brother, god of thunder (baritone)
  • Froh, Fricka's brother, god of spring/happiness (tenor)
  • Erda, goddess of wisdom/fate/Earth (contralto)
  • Loge, demigod of fire (tenor in Das Rheingold, represented instrumentally elsewhere)
  • The Norns, the weavers of fate, daughters of Erda (contralto, mezzo-soprano, soprano)
Wälsungs
  • Siegmund (tenor)
  • Sieglinde, his twin sister (soprano)
  • Siegfried, son of Siegmund and Sieglinde (tenor)
Neidings
  • Hunding, Sieglinde's husband, chief of the Neidings (bass)
Gibichungs
  • Gunther, King of the Gibichungs, son of King Gibich and Queen Grimhilde (baritone)
  • Gutrune, his sister (soprano)
  • Hagen, their half-brother, son of Alberich and Queen Grimhilde (bass)
  • A male choir of Gibichung vassals and a small female choir of women
  • Brünnhilde (soprano)
  • Waltraute (mezzo-soprano)
  • Helmwige (soprano)
  • Gerhilde (soprano)
  • Siegrune (mezzo-soprano)
  • Schwertleite (mezzo-soprano)
  • Ortlinde (soprano)
  • Grimgerde (mezzo-soprano)
  • Rossweisse (mezzo-soprano)
Rhinemaidens
  • Woglinde (soprano)
  • Wellgunde (soprano)
  • Flosshilde (mezzo-soprano)
Giants
  • Fasolt (bass-baritone)
  • Fafner, his brother, later turned into a dragon (bass)
Nibelungs
  • Alberich (baritone)
  • Mime, his brother, and Siegfried's foster father (tenor)
  • The Voice of a Woodbird (soprano)

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