Ring cycle

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The Ring cycle is Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera epic based on Germanic and Norse mythology, renowned as one of the most ambitious works in the operatic repertoire.

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Ring Cycle 2
Ring cycle canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf opera cycle
alsoKnownAs Der Ring des Nibelungen
basedOn Germanic mythology
Norse mythology
centralObject Nibelung hoard
magic ring
completeCyclePremiereCity Bayreuth
completeCyclePremiereCountry Germany
completeCyclePremiereLocation Bayreuth Festspielhaus
completeCyclePremiereYear 1876
composer Richard Wagner
compositionEndYear 1874
compositionStartYear 1848
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Richard Wagner
dayOneTitle Die Walküre
dayThreeTitle Götterdämmerung
dayTwoTitle Siegfried
firstPartPremiere Das Rheingold
fourthPartPremiere Götterdämmerung
genre music drama
opera
hasPart Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Götterdämmerung
Siegfried
influencedBy Nibelungenlied
Poetic Edda
Völsunga saga
librettist Richard Wagner
notableCharacter Alberich
Brünnhilde
Fricka
Hagen
Siegfried
Wotan
notableFeature use of leitmotifs
notableVenue Bayreuth Festival
numberOfOperas 4
orchestration large orchestra
originalLanguage German
period Romantic era
prologueTitle Das Rheingold
secondPartPremiere Die Walküre
setting mythical world of gods, heroes, and dwarfs
structure prologue and three days
textAuthor Richard Wagner
thirdPartPremiere Siegfried
titleInGerman Der Ring des Nibelungen
typicalPerformanceDuration approximately 15 hours

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Götterdämmerung cycle Ring cycle
Fafner cyclePartOf Ring Cycle
linked to: Ring cycle
Erda fictionalUniverse Ring Cycle
linked to: Ring cycle