It is a very humanly performation. The third opera in the cycle is Siegfried. Edited from Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre (1980) See more » User Reviews . The second opera in the cycle is Die Walküre. Wagner first wrote Siegfrieds Tod in 1848, later revised and retitled Gotterdammerung. Then the composers main source was the Middle High German Nibelunglied. Siegmund, who has helped a woman being forced into marriage, is fleeing enemies and traveling under the assumed name Wehwalt (meaning “woeful”). Separated early, the twins are now young adults. A Brief Synopsis of Der Ring des Nibelungen. 16 January 2008 | by Conspirator_Slash – See all my reviews. Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung (Alberich)) is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner. Perhaps the greatest Ring ever. In 1851 he decided to expand his original opera into a cycle of four dramas, which he called Der Ring des Nibelungen. Der Ring des Nibelungen - Der Ring des Nibelungen - Story summary of Die Walküre: Wotan had fathered twin children with a mortal woman, a male (called Siegmund) and a female (called Sieglinde). "In November 1851, Wagner drafted a first scenario for Das Rheingold, projected in three acts, with the title The Rape of the Rheingold. The fourth opera in the cycle is Götterdämmerung. In places, Wagner tells the story with the orchestra, using leitmotifs—fragments of melody that convey emotions and themes as they recur in varying contexts. Der Ring des Nibelungen, or the Ring cycle, is an unsurpassed exaltation of German heritage and mythology. I absolutely loved Chéreau's direction. It was my first whole Ring (former I've listened it only and seen Die Walküre sometimes). Background (from Alan Blyth's Wagner's Ring: An introduction, 4-5). The first opera in the cycle is Das Rheingold.