| Composer | Music |
| Wagner | "Das Rheingold", Scene I. (Prelude and Alberich's attempts to attract the Rhinemaidens) |
| Wagner | "Das Rheingold", Scene I. (The theft of the gold) |
| Wagner | "Das Rheingold", Scene II. (Valhall, and the conversation of Wotan and Fricka) |
| Wagner | "Das Rheingold", Scene II. (Entry of Fasolt and Fafner to the end of Fasolt's rebuke to Wotan) |
| Wagner | "Das Rheingold", Scene II. (Descent into Nibelheim, transition to Scene III and Alberich's chastising of Mime.) |
| Wagner | "Das Rheingold", Scene IV. (Donner strikes the rock and conjures up the rainbow bridge. The gods enter Valhalla as the Rhinemaidens lament the loss of their gold.) |
| Wagner | "Die Walküre", Act I (Prelude, Siegmund's arrival at Hunding's house. Up to middle of Siegmund's account of himself.) |
| Wagner | "Die Walküre", Act III (Final scene, Brünnhilde's sleep, the magic fire.) |
This programme was the first instalment of a two-part "potting" of "Der Ring des Nibelungen". The second part, covering "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walküre", was given on Jan.18th, 1980