Ring of the Nibelung, The*: Meaning and Definition of

Ring' of the Ni'be•lung The

1. Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas:(completed 1869), Die Walküre (completed 1870), Siegfried (completed 1876), and Götterdämmerung (completed 1876): the cycle was first performed at Bayreuth, 1876. Das Rheingold