by Richard Wagner.

Scottish Opera's new production of Wagner's Ring cycle was recorded last month at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and is broadcast here over four consecutive nights.

In the prologue to the drama, the hunchbacked Nibelung dwarf Alberich steals the Rhinegold from the Rhinemaidens and forges a ring of limitless power. Introduced and described by Donald Macleod.

Scottish Opera Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong