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Looking at "The Ring" this way is actually very useful as a way of avoiding the common "vulgar idiot's misconceptions" about the opera-cycle - the most vulgar and idiotic of which you actually trot out in your desperate, panicked attempt at intervention a few posts back.
Using a hopelessly imprecise, crudely hyperbolic language typical of the mall-prowling semi-illiterate ignoramus you probably are, you say that "Siegfried is generally considered to be the most awesome (!) part of the 'Ring' by people who aren't talking bollocks about Wagner."
It's a very telling indication of the pitiful level of musical and cultural sophistication that is the only level that you are able to operate on that you should think this.
It's not as telling, admittedly, as the REAL give-away of your expressing the opinion that "the only part of 'The Valkyrie' that is not boring is 'The Ride of the Valkyries'. It's the typical idiot's take on the opera, since 'The Ride' is the only part of it that EVERYONE knows and the only part where "Wagner sounds like Wagner is supposed to sound" (or like morons who've never really listened to his work THINK he's supposed to sound) i.e. lots of loud trumpets and drums and women wailing in chorus. I've already mentioned that all musical connoisseurs recommend the FIRST ACT of The Valkyrie as a creation representative of Wagner's TRUE genius - no drums, no trumpets, no vast military choruses, just elusive shifting half-melodies that weave in and out of each other and half-describe the secret sorrows and miseries of wounded, vulnerable, lonely souls like Siegmund's).