Focuses on the twin lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, and the valkyrie Brünnhilde’s defiance of her father, Wotan, the king of the gods.

Fritz Lang’s 1924 silent film masterpiece Die Nibelungen remains one of the most significant visual adaptations of the source material.

The Ring cycle introduced revolutionary techniques that forever changed music and theater:

The "preliminary evening" where the dwarf Alberich steals gold from the Rhine maidens to forge a ring of ultimate power, sparking a conflict between gods, giants, and dwarfs.