This was the first time in my life I had to use the 0.75x speed function

It's funny how such a short version of the plot is a thousand times harder to follow than the actual opera.

Some time later, Smeagol fishes the ring out of the Rhine and shit kicks off again.

As much as I love opera, I think it would also be really cool if someone made some live action movies where the soundtrack is nothing but the orchestral parts. That would be so awesome.

Story aside you have to admit that Wagner wrote some pretty damn good music.

0:10 "Alberich" - the Nibelung has a very powerful ring made of gold stolen from the "Rhinemaidens" 0:15 Wotan - King of the Gods - Castle in the sky 0:18 Freya - Wotan's Sister in Law 0:22 Alberich curses the ring 0:27 Fasolt and Fafner = giants 0:29 Fafner kills Fasolt and takes off with the ring. 0:26 The mysterious Erda materialises and warns Wotan on to be careful but Wotan distracted by his shiny new palace and he his family had to across the Rainbow Bridge to Valhalla. 0:41 Fricka - Wotan's Wife 0:44 Siegmund and Sieglinde have run away together - two problems: they're brother and sister and Sieglinde is already married to Hunding they're also Wotan's children but not Fricka's. 0:52 Nothung - sword 0:58 Valkyries - Helmwige, Otrlinde, Gerhilde, Waltraute, Grimgerde, Siegrune, Rossweisse, Schwertleite, Brunnhilde 1:02 Brunnhilde - She tries to save Sigmund and failed. 1:08 Wotan banishes Brunnhilde to sleep on a fiery mountain top until a fearless man wakes her up and claims her as his wife. 1:14 Sieglinde has actally survived and she's carrying her brother's child. 1:21 Hagen - Alberich's dastardly son gets the ring the gods need a hero but one who's never heard of the gods or been helped by them. 1:28 Siegfried, raised but unloved by Alberich's mother Mime, fits the bill. 1:32 Mime has other ideas he'd like Siegfried to slave Fafner, now a dragon and snatch the ring. 1:39 Nothung reforged - dispatches the dragon then kills Mime too before Mime kills him. 1:43 A little bird tells him to keep the ring and head for the mountain. 1:47 On route he meets an old man, we know it's Wotan but Siegfried doesn't. He's spectacularly rude breaks Wotan's spear and he charges off the mount to wake Brunhilde. 1:56 Siegfried set off exploring again then he's drugged by Hagen at the home of Gunther and Gutruna, siblings who share a mother with Hagen. 2:03 Siegfried forgets Brunnhilde, he falls for Gutruna and when they send him back to the mountain disguises Gunther to kidnap Brunnhilde he's happy to oblige. 2:13 A little manipulation from Hagen and now Hagen Gunther and Brunnhilde are all bent on revenge 2:18 Hagen delivers the fatal blow and everyone else immediately regrets it 2:26 She returns the ring to the Rhine and in the process throws herself on Siegfried's funeral's pyre. 2:30 The Rhine floods, Valhalla burns and earth makes a fresh start without the gods!

So what I got from this was a mix of The Lord of the Rings and Oedipus Rex...

I understand the ring as a spiritual metafore The ring (spirit/soul) that is taken out of the river (tranquility) for a castle (material world/senses). Eventually this ring moves through various owners (reincarnation) and brings jealousy and anger (emotions/sensual world) before eventually returning to the river.

He missed out the tarnhelm, isn't that how Fafner becomes a dragon?

imagine watching a 15 hour long drama... what an experience

The prelude and entry of gods into Valhalla always brings tears to my eyes.I can't listen to it in front of my kids as they don't know what's going on!

Chuck Jones ("Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!) once said he never knew anyone who watched all four of the operas in a row with their sanity intact. Totally unrelated, Adolph Hitler attended the Wagner Ring Cycle several times.

Thank you. That’s saved me 14 hours and 57 minutes I would never been able to get back.

Just finished watching the entire opera from the met's free opera streams, and let's just say... Wagner needed an editor.

I have no idea what this is, but I still clicked on it I also have no idea why KZfaq thought I would like it Such are the mysteries of the algorithm

Utterly brilliant!

Amazing video, and really funny!

Even more concise than Anna Russell's assessment! -- And includes some plot points she leaves out. Be sure to pause it at 2:33 and read it all... (Yeah, what *did* happen to "cool" Freia?? -- Maybe she migrated to a Gilbert and Sullivan piece...)

Brilliant !

Absolutely lovely and yet funny as well

This is perfection :D

This music is so culturally pervasive. I grew up with it in Loony Tunes cartoons and heard much of it when I lived in Germany. As an American Black, I cannot say that I was ever drawn to it otherwise. Today a passed in shelf in the library and WAGNER'S RING OF THE NIBELUNG: The full German text with a new translation and commentaries caught my eye. So, I thought, let me see what this is all about. I searched KZfaq and found your video. Thank you for your synopsis!! The characters seem quite messy; all this incest, etc... I wonder what about this work inspired Hitler, though? If it is ever made into a mini series, I might check it out. I heard it is going to be featured at the Met in NYC this year. Thanks again for your video!!

Now that was a lot of information to take in

It ends with Ragnarok? Sweet.

Well done!

Funny, but I can do it in 5 seconds: Wotan's got a ring to conquest the world, but the ring was cursed, so he had siblings that were married and die, and his grandson got married with his daughter and they died too. LOL

Congratulations 🌹

AWESOME!

Got it! Thanks.

And I thought Anna Russell was speedy with 20 minutes! Well done!

had to watch it 4 times to get the key points but you saved me 14 hours and 50 mins,so i suppose i have to thank everyone for this video, i didn't like wagner to start with, not i have some valid points that i can back up with some valid points too haha, +1 for the effort, definately +2 for the idea

The plot of Wagner's "Ring" is no doubt one of the most complex and convoluted plots in operatic literature. No wonder these folks tried to condense it!

some how aspects of this story seem very familiar

Speed kills......

Great!

Okay, now we need to slow it way down... and get a copy of that diagram.

For a longer and much funnier synopsis, listen to Anna Russell (on YT)

Next time do it in 5 minutes, or 10. Even with subtitles it's impossible to follow...

LOL good explanation, i heared a shorted form of the ring and make Fanfiction basing on this, the Edda and the japanese Anime Kamigami no Asobi. Brünnhilde got no nine sisters, but two Brothers Thor (full brother) & Balder (Half-Brother) and Siegfried is not her nephew XD

Wagner was insane

Got it! I think...

The ring fast forward !

So story short, without all the twists and side stories: Gollem finds the ring in a river Wotan, a God, steals the ring to pay for a castle Gollem curses the ring and the ring ends up in a dragon's lair Meanwhile Wotan has several children on Earth that seems to partake in incest Wotan's wife gets jealous and tries to kill his children One of Wotan's daughters wants to warn them but gets prisoned At the same time, Wotan believes that if Gollem's child finds the ring, the world is gonna end So Wotan needs a hero, who is someone that is related to him but does not know him He finds his hero in Siegfried, a bastard child of Wotan's incest children Siegfried kills the dragon, gets the ring and falls in love with Wotan's prisoned daughter Later Siegfried gets killed by Gollem's child and Wotan's daughter returns the ring to the river which results in the ending of the Earth...

funny its funny!!!

Should have subtitles.

why do parts of this feel very familiar

what is it with germans and !ncest ?

So, anyone from Army of Thieves?

Im here because of Army of Thieves

Well, what do you expect in this opera? A happy ending?

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Was here because of the Netflix film, "Army of Thieves"

i am a Verdi person,makes more sense to me and in a reasonable amount of time:)

Been listening to the music of the Ring for 40 years and never gave a crap about the dumb plot. So, thanks for this.

at -1:33 is that a david bowie reference?

Anyone else is here to see where Tolkien took his inspiration?

Yeah, that story is a bit touched in the head, but the music really sells it. No mention of Loki, though?

To understand this short story you need knowledge of whole Wagner Ring. ;-)

Thus proving that there's about 14 hours and 56 minutes of the Ring Cycle that's superfluous. Was Wagner being paid by the note?

Lol! Thanks

Could be a good video if it would have half the speed. So it is not possible to follow even if you have knowledge of The Ring before.

How could you not like Wagner?

:-( The Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns!

So this is where the story of lord of the rings came from.

Problem I have is that Fafnir wasn't a giant, but a dwarf...

Fafner became a dragon with the Tarnhelm. Siegmund and Sieglind's mother wasn't some mortal woman, she was Erda the goddess of the earth who Wotan seduced to find out more about her warning.

How Hitler managed to sit through all 15 hours of these operas is something I will never understand!

And all of that because Wotan couldn't keep it in his pants.

Shit I do to understand genshin story

Too fast but good.

Play on 0.75 speed and you level up

God! Imagine having to follow this 4 part plot while its all being sung. I can barely follow the _Les Miserable_ story, and that's just one part. I guess it must be easier for Germans. They must be more familiar with the plot.

What

Forgot to mention the fact that Gutrune gave Siegfried a love potion that made him forget Brunhilde. Always found it weird the characters especially Brunhilde know about this but don't care and still want to kill him

Why does Alberich want the ring back when he cursed it to kill anyone who wears it? Just seems like a bit of a plothole

I preferred ‘Sands of Time’.

Is there a summary a little more extensive you can recommend? This brushes over a huge amount of things including, settings, characters, and pretty much everything except some of the major plot points.

Slow it down, it would be easier already if the composition itself wasnt long enough to remember.

This funny video nicely shows how badly Wagner was at creating plots. He was a good composer, at least the instrumental parts, but he wreaked havoc on all the nordic myths.

Pity you trivialise this huge master peace like this. There is so so much more to it than this makes it sound

What is it about these old mythologies and incest?

Would have been nice if you spoke clearer, not necessarily slower, but more articulate.

A few lines of this were shamelessly borrowed from Anna Russell's famous routine.

Even this is too long. :)

So... This inspired the lord of the rings... Cool

bugs bunny brought me here

Wagner obviously ripped off Lord of the Rings.

A voice major who loves/appreciates all but about 3 music genres. But never cared for the snatches of this I've heard, so intense and grandiose. And now very glad I never bothered to plow through this insane scenario. Sorry, Wagner!

And John Snow still knows nothing!

And one more time it's all about incest, robbery, murder and promiscuity. HBO?😅

Too slow.

Here because of Tolstoy ....he basically wrote a book explaining why this is Garbage

Slow down.

dude, create this video again and talk FUCKING SLOWLY

Next time, go to the bathroom before you record a video.

Why? This is such a bastardized telling of this epic, told in a deliberately incomprehensible manner, helping approximately no one understand Wagner better. Has our society really degraded to the point where all things must be condensed into short little snippets?

What is your purpose in all this? Why this desperation? .... if I watch this thing till the end, I will surely vomit!!