Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Nibelung's Ring / The Ring of the Nibelung) is called "ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend" (a stage festival drama for three days and a preliminary evening).
The Ring is really one drama in four parts:
- Das Rheingold
- Die Walküre
- Siegfried
- Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)
The Ring had its world premiere at the first festival in Bayreuth in 1876. Three cycles were shown. Richard Wagner was stage director and Hans Richter was the conductor. Artists and celebreties from all over the world had come to Bayreuth to be a part of this event.
The next time the complete Ring was produced in Bayreuth was in 1896.
Outside Bayreuth Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete) was produced in the following cities
| 1878 | München |
| 1879 | Wien |
| 1880 | Hamburg |
| 1881 | Berlin (Angelo Neumann's travelling Wagner-Theatre with guest performances in Berliner Viktoria-Theater) |
| 1882–1883 | Angelo Neumann's travelling Wagner-Theatre on tour: London (Her Majesty's Theatre), Breslau, Königsberg, Danzig, Hannover, Bremen, Barmen, Dresden, Amsterdam, Brüssel, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Mainz, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Strassburg, Stuttgart, Basel, Venice, Bologna, Rome, Torino, Triest, Budapest, Graz – totaling 135 performances of the Ring! |
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