The title object of this musical composition is forged by Alberich. Its composer built a theater in Bayreuth [bi-ROYT] specifically to host this work, which takes 16 hours to perform over four nights. It ends with Brunnhilde 
The title object of this musical composition is forged by Alberich. Its composer built a theater in Bayreuth [bi-ROYT] specifically to host this work, which takes 16 hours to perform over four nights. It ends with Brunnhilde riding into a (*) funeral pyre and the burning of the Hall of the Gods. Das Rheingold [RINE-gold], Die Walküre [dee VAL-koor], Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung make up, for 10 points, what epic four-opera "cycle" written by Richard Wagner [ree-kart VAHG-ner]?
The title object of this musical composition is forged by Alberich.
The Ring of the Nibelung (or The Ring Cycle or the Der Ring des Nibelungen; accept Das Rheingold before "16 hours" is read)