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   I bought this because at the time, I was heavily into the music of the Final Fantasy series of videogames, and read somewhere that Nobuo Uematsu's use of leitmotifs for each character was inspired by Wagner's operas. So I went and bought this, assuming that their styles would be similar. I think you can guess how that one ended. I later took a short course in which we studied the entire Ring cycle of operas, and appreciated his music a little more when I could see it being performed. (Sorry about no umlauts in the track listings--I don't know the character codes to display them in HTML.)

Track listing:
• Disc 1
  1. Rienzi - Overture
  2. Der fliegende Hollander - Overture
  3. Tristan und Isolde - Prelude, Act I
  4. Tannhauser - Overture
  5. Tannhauser - Bacchanale
• Disc 2
  1. Lohengrin - Prelude, Act I
  2. Siegfried Idyll
  3. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Prelude and Hymn, Act I
  4. Parsifal - Prelude, Act I
  5. Gotterdammerung - Siegfried's Funeral March