The four operas of Richard Wagner's epic opera cycle, the Ring, are among the greatest and most influential works in the genre. While their music has been the s

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the

The author discusses literary and poetic rather than the musical elements of Richard Wagner's treatment of the Teutonic myth of the Nibelungs.