2025年1月10日 · Der Ring des Nibelungen, or the Ring cycle, is an unsurpassed exaltation of German heritage and mythology. In places, Wagner tells the story with the orchestra, using leitmotifs —fragments of melody that convey emotions and …

Influenced chiefly by the great Scandinavian and Germanic epics but also by Greek mythology, Richard Wagner laid the groundwork for his magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen (also known as the Ring cycle), in 1848 at the age of 35.

2024年8月23日 · Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung") is a cycle of four epic operas or 'dramas' by the German composer Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied.

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen) remains the most ambitious and monumental achievement in the history of opera. The composer took 25 years to bring it to life, and designed a purpose-built theatre in the Franconian town of Bayreuth in order to realise it.

2025年1月10日 · Der Ring des Nibelungen - Epic Saga, Norse Mythology, Wagner Opera: In a prologue, the three Norns (Fates) relate tales of Wotan’s past adventures and of the pending consumption of Valhalla and the gods by fire. Siegfried …

2018年3月1日 · Everything you need to know about Wagner’s epic Ring cycle in one place, right here! In 2016, Opera North’s extraordinary journey through Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen came full circle, in a series of six full Ring cycles.

2025年1月10日 · Der Ring des Nibelungen - Epic Saga, Norse Mythology, Wagner Opera: Wotan had fathered twin children with a mortal woman, a male (called Siegmund) and a female (called Sieglinde). Separated early, the twins are now young adults.

His most massive work is the cycle of four operas, "The Ring of the Nibelung." Wagner, who wrote his own librettos, drew his story from Norse mythology and Germanic epic.

2020年3月26日 · The Ring of the Nibelung is a total work of art on a par with works of world literature such as Homer’s Iliad or Dante’s Divina commedia. It is astonishing how homogeneous this work appears to us, which was created over a period of 25 years and in …

The Big Bad Shuffle: Alberich, the titular Nibelung, is the artist of most of the misery in the story thanks to his creation of the ring to rule the world out of spite and curse on it to lead those it comes into contact with to doom.