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

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Götterdämmerung cycle Ring cycle