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Updated: May 24, 2025
Although not produced until 1884, 'Sigurd' was written long before the first performance of 'Götterdämmerung, but in any case no suspicion of plagiarism can attach to Reyer's choice of Wagner's subject. There is very little except the subject common to the two works.
Reyer's melodic inspiration is not always of the highest, but he rarely sinks below a standard of dignified efficiency. In 'Salammbô, a setting of Flaubert's famous romance which was produced at Brussels in 1890, he did not repeat the success of 'Sigurd. 'Salammbô' is put together in a workmanlike way, but there is little genuine inspiration in the score.
These children were two sons, whose education their mother entirely undertook, until, after old Madame Reyer's death in 1837, she succeeded to an inheritance, which lifted the little family out of the slough of poverty, and enabled her to provide her sons with good teachers.
Sigurd is the same person as Siegfried, and the plot of Reyer's opera is drawn from the same source as that of 'Götterdämmerung. Hilda, the youthful sister of Gunther, the king of the Burgundians, loves the hero Sigurd, and at the instigation of her nurse gives him a magic potion, which brings him to her feet.
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