“The Ride Of The Valkyries" is the prelude to Act III of “Die Walküre”, the second of the four operas by Richard Wagner that comprise The Ring of the Nibelungs (Der Ring des Nibelungen). The Ring of the Nibelungs is a sequence of four musical dramas based on the Norse saga, which concerns the turbulent family history of a race of gods and their pursuit of a magical golden ring. It began as a single opera focusing on the death of Siegfried but grew into a vast cycle of four operas comprising Das