The Ring of the Nibelung

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was one of the greatest composers in the history of opera. His magnificent tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) was based in part upon Teutonic myth - fused by Wagner's soaring imagination into one of the profound achievements of western music and drama.

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), which serves as a prologue to the other three parts of The Ring, begins upon a chord of E flat major, which synbolizes a formless, timeless void... the original state of nature.

Then, time intrudes... and the world begins.

The creation of gods and men, left implicit in Wagner, is very much a part of the tale we have to tell...

- Roy Thomas

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