File:Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen

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Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874. The four operas that constitute the Ring cycle are, in the order of the imagined events they portray:

Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)

0:00 Vorspiel 5:24 Zweite Szene 7:48 Dritte Szene 10:04 Heda! Heda hedo!

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)

11:57 Akt 1 14:53 Akt 1, Final 15:35 Akt 2, Prelude 18:06 Akt 3, The Ride of the Valkyries 21:21 Akt 3, Wotan's Farewell 26:37 Akt 3, Magic Fire Music

Siegfried

28:00 Akt 1, Siegfried forges his sword 28:45 Akt 1, Final 29:02 Akt 2, Forest murmurs 31:06 Akt 2, Siegfried kills Fafner 32:24 Akt 2, Fafner's lament

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

34:18 Siegfried's and Brunnhilde's passion 40:10 Siedfried's Rhine journey 45:16 Hagen's call to his clan 47:00 Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens 49:50 Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music 1:00:33 Immolation Scene

Conductor: Lorin Maazel Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker