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• n  myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil

• For a long time the nation had been flirting with forms of gotterdammerung, with extremes of vocabulary and behavior and an appetite for violent resolution.

• Gotterdammerung
• Ragnarok
• Twilight of the Gods

News & Articles

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• Boos, Boos and More Boos Greet Bayreuth ‘Ring’ Director
  The audience erupted in what can only be described as a standing boo-ation after the Bayreuth Festival premiere of “Gotterdammerung,” the last of the four operas in Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.
  Aug. 1, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Jim Cramer in TheStreet.com
  Cramer, who had been bearish on Lowe's and Home Depot before the hurricane, said, "I was wrong. I did not anticipate a catastrophe on this scale. ...... This wasn't a hurricane. It was gotterdammerung."
• Siegfried Jerusalem in New Zealand Herald
  It was Wolfgang Wagner who asked me to sing Siegfried at Bayreuth,says Jerusalem. "He suggested that I might first do Gotterdammerung as that part is a little bit easier than what the character has to sing in Siegfried. But I was...
• Placido Domingo in Baltimore Sun
  But Domingo, the famed tenor and occasional conductor who is also the company's general director, said yesterday, "We are going to finish the Ring as we promised. We will do Siegfried in '08-'09 and have Gotterdammerung as part of the full Ring"...