The third and final day of the Tetralogy, the summa and conclusion of all the motifs both musical and dramaturgical that run through it, Götterdämmerung a.k.a. The Twilight of the Gods stages the armageddon of Norse mythology and, against the light, of bourgeois society that is the subject of Wagner’s critical analysis. In the collapse of Walhalla, the palace that Wotan built through theft and deception, lies the new beginning of the world, as the cursed gold that had unleashed the lust for power of gods and Nibelungs returns to the depths of the German Rhine.