When Wagner began to write what later became the epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he actually started at the end. He began with Siegfried’s Funeral March, which occurs in the final act of Götterdämmerung, but he realised that alone was not enough to tell the story. He had to tell the story of how Siegfried got to this point, and the events that led to his death. Gradually, the work that came together was the four opera cycle, commonly known as The Ring Cycle, or 'Wagner’s Ring'.
This opera, the last in the quartet, had its premiere at the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, the first time the Ring Cycle
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