By Necati Öziri
Staging: Christopher Rüping
World premiere: 28 January 2022, Pfauen
ca. 3 hours 30mins, one interval included
Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is a monster, full of otherworldly music and deep-seated hatred, full of fervent storms of love and hardcore racism, full of a deep reverence for nature and for Darwin’s blood ideology. Should it even continue to be performed today? No, not necessarily. Nevertheless, even if the Ring were to disappear into the depths of the archives, never to be performed again, it would be difficult to undo the influence this megalomaniacal work has had.
It is however possible to correct it!
Author Necati Öziri has written just such a “correction” of the Ring, in which the stories that Wagner withheld are finally told. Musicians Black Cracker and Jonas Holle have assembled an orchestra of independent musicians, countering Wagner’s one-man show with a polyphonic work, and director Christopher Rüping is finally turning his hand to opera! Hojotoho!
The staging's music, produced by the artists Born In Flamez, Gil Schneider, Isa GT, Ixa, Legion Seven, Leo Luchini, P.A. Hülsenbeck and Simonne Jones, who have joined forces as The Ring Orchestra, was released on February 25, 2022 digitally and on April 1 as a double-LP. For more information on the project and to listen and order, visit the following link: The Ring Orchestra LP
Naïma Alissa Trabelsi
Lux Züst
© Emma Lou Herrmann
Introduction to Wagners RING DES NIBELUNGEN
© Emma Lou Herrmann