Musicians in a relaxed moment before getting on the stage in "Das Rheingold."

"The resentment, a soul's deformation of the weak and ugly -- one more time, a Christian moral overcoming that preaches mercy for the unhappy --, an affection despised for both Wagner and Nietzsche and the other romantic Germans, dominate Alberich and he reveals your petty and revengeful nature. Creature of abysses' darkness, he represents the weakness of an impotent soul in seducing the nymphs." (Pondé)