Ring of the Nibelung

British  

noun

1. German myth a magic ring on which the dwarf Alberich placed a curse after it was stolen from him

2. Often shortened to: The Ring.  the four operas by Wagner, Das Rheingold (1869), Die Walküre (1870), Siegfried (1876), and Götterdämmerung (1876), based on this myth

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Ring of the Nibelung Cultural  

1. A series of four operas by Richard Wagner, based on stories from Norse mythology; the central story is that of Siegfried and Brünnhilde. As the Ring ends, the gods are about to be overcome. The four operas of the Ring are The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, and The Twilight of the Gods.

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Example Sentences

In The Perfect Wagnerite, his anticapitalist reading of The Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Shaw wrote that the descent into Nibelheim, the realm of the enslaved dwarves, is “frightfully real, frightfully present, frightfully modern”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2020

The four-part "Ring of the Nibelung" is part of a campaign by the Met to tap contemporary filmmakers and theater directors to stage new operas or overhaul classics to become more relevant to modern tastes.

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2010

The Met's season began on Monday with "Das Rheingold," the first installment of its $15 million, high-tech new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," directed by Quebec theater director Robert Lepage.

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2010

The Seattle Opera, for example, is in the seventh summer of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, in both English and German cycles.

From Time Magazine Archive

For several years all my steps and efforts in that direction have been in vain; otherwise, not only "Tristan" but "The Ring of the Nibelung" would be in existence and do wonders.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Hueffer, Francis