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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