The Ring Cycle proper begins with Die Walkure and ends with Gotterdammerung, with Rheingold as a prelude.
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14 Facts About Ring Cycle
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Ring Cycle eventually had a purpose-built theatre constructed, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, in which to perform this work.
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Wagner created the story of the Ring Cycle by fusing elements from many German and Scandinavian myths and folk-tales.
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Ring Cycle wrote for a very large orchestra, using the whole range of instruments used singly or in combination to express the great range of emotion and events of the drama.
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Ring Cycle developed the "Wagner bell", enabling the bassoon to reach the low A-natural, whereas normally B-flat is the instrument's lowest note.
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Ring Cycle was possibly stimulated by a series of articles in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, inviting composers to write a 'national opera' based on the Nibelungenlied, a 12th-century High German poem which, since its rediscovery in 1755, had been hailed by the German Romantics as the "German national epic".
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Ring Cycle now felt that he needed a preliminary opera, Der junge Siegfried, to explain the events in Siegfrieds Tod, and his verse draft of this was completed in May 1851.
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Ring Cycle returned to Siegfried, and, remarkably, was able to pick up where he left off.
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Ring Cycle chose the title Gotterdammerung instead of Siegfrieds Tod.
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In 1882, London impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first staging in the United Kingdom of the Ring cycle, conducted by Anton Seidl and directed by Angelo Neumann.
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Early productions of the Ring cycle stayed close to Wagner's original Bayreuth staging.
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Metropolitan Opera began a new Ring cycle directed by French-Canadian theater director Robert Lepage in 2010.
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Orchestral versions of the Ring cycle, summarizing the work in a single movement of an hour or so, have been made by Leopold Stokowski, Lorin Maazel and Henk de Vlieger, .
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