Many orchestras have presented individual numbers in concert from Richard Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle – “The Ring of the Nibelungen.” Even people who are not opera fans will recognize “Ride of the Valkyries,” which is regularly heard in pop culture such as Looney Toons’ “Kill the Wabbit” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
In 1987, conductor Lorin Maazel arranged orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s entire cycle of four vast music dramas, weaving them into one sprawling,…
