The backstage in "Das Rheingold" and the musicians preparation.

"All the trama sequence, which will be unfolded in the last act, reveals the disorder which is the obsession for gold, for majestic housing, for youth and for love as a trophy. Having lost everything, the nibelung curses who have the ring, because who desires it will not have it and who have it will be unhappy. Thus like the nymphs the dwarf curse the one who have the possession of power." (Pondé)