In addition to these, Braxton has released an increasing number of works for large-scale orchestras, including two opera cycles.
Nodell mentions Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung and the sight of a trainman's green railway lantern as his inspiration.
In Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848-1874), Nibelung denotes a dwarf, or perhaps a specific race of dwarves.
Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen was composed over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874.
This definition can apply to everything from settings of the Mass or a song cycle to an opera cycle.
Penderecki wrote loud banalities in a neo-Romantic idiom, while Stockhausen, with his days-of-the-week opera cycle, tried to become the new Wagner.
This chummy little novel is a sequel to Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen," set mostly in a rural area of contemporary England.
Tournaments of a hundred sorts, theatricals, opera cycles, pavanes, classical panto- mime; the spectacles progress in their seasons; there are roles for everyone.
Under the name Brünnhilde she appears in the Nibelungenlied and therefore also in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Put simply, Wagner's opera cycle tells the story of how the gods were brought down by two things: a bitter curse; and an act of unselfish heroism.