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Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic music drama by the German composer Richard Wagner. The opera are based loosely on characters from the Norse saga and the Nibelungenlied. The works are often referred to as "The Ring Cycle", "Wagner's Ring", or simply "The Ring". 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... full article at wikipedia
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