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Watch: Wagner's Ring cycle - the ultimate opera binge watch

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The musical event of the ARTE Opera Season! Richard Wagner's monumental Ring under the baton of Christian Thielemann, in a daring staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov, available in full on ARTE Concert!

Watch Das Rheingold above, and the rest of the Ring cycle here.

This cycle of four operas - Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung - inspired by Nordic and Germanic mythology was recorded at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with the prestigious Staatskapelle orchestra and internationally renowned singers.

Presented via RTÉ's innovative content agreement with ARTE, the European culture TV channel.

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