In "Das Rheingold," the technical staff and musicians meet in the backstage.

"No wonder (...) that [Franz Brendel's] challenge have being answered by the one who would become one of the most prominent members of the New German School: Richard Wagner, ambitious Kapellmeister (in other words, conductor) of the Saxon's king court, in Dresden, who, in October 4th 1848, wrote a prose outline of that that would be your more absorbing and powerful aesthetic initiative, Der Nibelungen - Mythis: Als Entwurf zu einem Drama." (Perpetuo)