Der Ring des Nibelungen

(‘Anulus Nibelungi’) est cyclus quattuor dramatum musicorum epicorum Ricardi Wagner compositoris Germanici (1813–1883). Haec dramata musica in personis sagarum Nordicarum et carminis Nibelungorum laxe conduntur. Ea compositor una trilogiam cum  Vorabend ('vesper antecedens', 'prooemium' significans) appellavit, et a multis hodie "Circulus Anuli", "Anulus Wagnerianus", vel simpliciter "Anulus" saepe appellantur. Wagner libellum et musicam circa viginti sex annos, ab 1848 ad 1874, componebat. Integer cyclus in publico primum praebitus est a die 13 Augusti ad diem 18 Augusti 1876 apud theatrum operaticum Baruthi in Bavaria.

Quattuor dramata cycli ordine perfunctionis sunt:
  (‘Aurum Rheni’)
  (‘Valkyria’)
  (‘Sigfridus’)
  (‘Crepusculum deorum’)
Quamquam singulae operae aliquando separatim peraguntur, Wagner eas in serie notionum perductoriarum peragi voluit.

Nibelungus titularis est nanus Albericus (Theodisce Alberich), et anulus est res quam Albericus ex Auro Rheni facit. Titulus ergo 'Anulum Alberici' significat.Magee 2001:109.

Dramatis personae
 Dei Mortales Valkyria Virgines Rheni, Gigantes, Nibelung (pl.) AnimalisWotan, rex deorum (deus lucis, aeris, venti) (bassus-barytonus)
Fricka, uxor Wotan, dea matrimonii (medio-supranus)
Freia, soror Frickae, dea amoris, iuventutis, pulchritudinis (supranus)
Donner, frater Frickae, deus tonitrus (barytonus)
Froh, frater Frickae, deus veris et felicitatis (tenor)
Erda, dea sapientiae, fati, terrae (contraltus)
Loge, heros ignis (tenor in Das Rheingold, per instrumenta alibi repraesentatus)
Nornae, textores fati, filiae Erdae (contraltus, medio-supranus, supranus)Wälsung (pl.)
Siegmund (tenor)
Sieglinde, eius gemina (supranus)
Siegfried, filius Siegmundi et Sieglindae (tenor)
Neiding (pl.)
Hunding, maritus Sieglindae, dux Neiding (pl.) (bassus)
Gibichung (pl.)
Gunther, Rex Gibichung (pl.), filius Regis Gibich et Reginae Grimhilde (barytonus)
Gutrune, eius soror (supranus)
, eorum frater, filius Alberici et Reginae Grimhilde (bassus)
Chorus mas clientum Gibichung et parvus chorus femineus mulierumBrünnhilde (supranus)
Waltraute (medio-supranus)
Helmwige (supranus)
Gerhilde (supranus)
Siegrune (medio-supranus)
Schwertleite (medio-supranus)
Ortlinde (supranus)
Grimgerde (medio-supranus)
Rossweisse (medio-supranus)Virgines Rheni
Woglinde (supranus)
Wellgunde (supranus)
Flosshilde (medio-supranus)
Gigantes
Fasolt (bassus-barytonus)
Fafner, eius frater, deinde in draconem conversus (bassus)
Nibelung (pl.)
Albericus (barytonus)
Mime, eius frater, et nutricius Siegfriedi (tenor)Vox Avis Silvestris (supranus)

Notae

Bibliographia
 Burbidge, Peter, et Richard Sutton. 1979. The Wagner Companion. Londinii. ISBN 0-571-11450-4.
 Cooke, Deryck. 2000. I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315318-1.
 Di Gaetani, John Louis. 1978. Penetrating Wagner's Ring: An Anthology. Novi Eboraci: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80437-3.
 Gregor-Dellin, Martin. 1983. Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century. Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-177151-0.
 Grey, Thomas S., ed. 2008. The Cambridge Companion to Wagner. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64439-6.
 Holman, J. K. 2001. Wagner's Ring: A Listener's Companion and Concordance. Portlandia Oregoniae: Amadeus Press.
 Lee, M. Owen. 1994. Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round. Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-0-87910-186-2.
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 May, Thomas. 2004. Decoding Wagner. Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-1-57467-097-4.
 Mendelssohn, Fanny. 1987. Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn, ed. Marcia Citron. Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-0-918728-52-4.
 Millington, Barry, ed. 2001. The Wagner Compendium. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-28274-9.
 Millington, Barry. 2008. Der Ring des Nibelungen: conception and interpretation. In Grey 2008:7484.
 Sabor, Rudolph. 1997. Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen: a companion volume. Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-3650-8.
Shaw, George Bernard. 1898. The Perfect Wagnerite. Textus interretialis apud gutenberg.org.
 Spotts, Frederick. 1999. Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-7126-5277-9.
 Wagner, Richard. 1994. The Art Work of the Future, and other works, conv. William Ashton Ellis. Lincoln et Londinii. ISBN 978-0-8032-9752-4. "A Communication to My Friends" est in pp. 269–392.

Nexus externi

"Kirov" Ring: Let's Hear It for the Home Team, The New York Times: Arts Blog Antonii Tommasini (2007)
Lab – The Ring and I, WNYC, podcast de Anulo (2004)

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