What makes the Ring Cycle unique in music history?

What makes the Ring Cycle unique in music history?

Wagner’s Ring Cycle is incredibly important in the history of music. This is for a number of reasons: its massive scope and length, its philosophical ideas, and because it has very powerful and beautiful music.

Is Lord of the Rings based on the Ring Cycle?

Some critics have suggested that The Lord of the Rings was directly derived from Richard Wagner’s opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, whose plot also centres on a powerful ring from Germanic mythology.

Is there a Lord of the Rings opera?

The name Ring refers to more than one character, item or concept. 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.

When the complete Der Ring des Nibelungen is performed it lasts about how long?

Yes, the “Ring” cycle lasts 17 hours. But that’s over several days, with days off between each of the four operas and long breaks after every act.

How long did Der Ring des Nibelungen take?

It took Wagner just over four years to complete the text of his Ring cycle (1848–1852). The composition of the music, however, would occupy him, on and off, for almost a quarter of a century.

Is LOTR about ww2?

Lord of the Rings is not based on World War 2-it is influenced by World Wars 2 AND 1, as Tolkien participated in the Great War and suffered horrific trauma.

Is LOTR real?

Lord of the Rings was, unfortunately, based on no TRUE story. Tolkien’s world had already been created in short stories he had written during his days in the army, those stories being the collection published in The Silmarillion, which concerned the history of Middle-Earth.

Did Wagner inspired Lord of the Rings?

Some researchers take an intermediate position: that both the authors used the same sources, but that Tolkien was influenced by Wagner’s development of the mythology, especially the conception of the Ring as conferring world mastery.

Is there a DVD of Der Ring des Nibelungen?

Chéreau and Boulez: Nibelungen Ring on DVD – the Bayreuth Centenary Ring. Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete). Bayreuth Festival 1980. Director: Patrice Chéreau. Cast includes: Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Gwyneth Jones (Brünnhilde), Manfred Jung (Siegfried), Peter Hofmann (Siegmund).

What is Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung based on?

(April 2017) Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied.

Is the ring of the Nibelungs singular or plural?

“Nibelungen” is occasionally mistaken as a plural, but the Ring of the Nibelungs (in German Der Ring der Nibelungen) is incorrect. The cycle is a work of extraordinary scale.

What do you think about the nibelungens?

The Nibelungens are an amorphous mass (the rising working class?) slaving for the modern capitalist and factory owner Alberich (for once not portrayed like a complete idiot) fighting the ruthless old-world aristocracy in the shape of Wotan. A true danse macabre is seen at the end of the Rheingold, while Loge pulls the curtain.