Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Das Rheingold (; The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen," (English: "The Ring of the Nibelung"). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.