Includes :- -Picture galleries -Trailers The Ring of the Nibelung :- -Das Rheingold -Die Walküre -Siegfried -Götterdämmerung The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by James Levine Production :- Otto Schenk Set and Projection Design :- Günther Schneider-Siemssen Costumes :- Rolf Langenfass Lighting :- Gil Wechsler Wagner's Ring at the Met... With music alone, Wagner brings the double tragedy of Wotan and Siegfried full circle. The logic of ritual, the sense of an end that was inevitable from the start, triumphs over chronological movernent. Time is frozen into a spatial image and filled with what Walter Benjamin called "the disconsolate chronicle of world history". "The Metropolitan Opera Ring is part of a series of Wagnerian productions undertaken there that attempt to restore a Romantic realism congruent with the music, while using modern stage techniques, [and] for those who have dreamed of seeing the saga look like their visions of mythology, the results may be worth it." -Jon Alan Conrad (The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video, 1997, reviewing the VHS release)