Opening Concert:
The Ring Orchestra Redux

The Ring Orchestra came together in 2022 to compose the music for Necati Öziri's Ring des Nibelungen, directed by Christopher Rüping. The musicians Black Cracker and Jonas Holle put together an orchestra of independent musicians and countered Wagner's one-man show with a polyphonic work that became more than the sum of its parts. In 18 compositions, the artists Born In Flamez, Gil Schneider, Simonne Jones, Leo Luchini, Legion Seven, P.A. Hülsenbeck, Isa GT and Ixa created a collaborative score that takes Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen as its starting point. Not interested in an affirmative homage, the orchestra set out to deconstruct and break open what Wagner and his opus magnum stand for: Lonerism instead of collaboration and conservative rigidity instead of openness. To kick off the Happy End, four of the Ring Orchestra's musicians are returning to Zurich to create an evening of music together at the moods jazz club: Leo Luchini, Legion Seven, Uxile (fka P.A. Hülsenbeck) and Isa GT mix everything from pop to reggaeton and a variety of non-Western musical influences on this evening. And thus shape the beginning of the finale, which focuses on ambivalences and a decentralized authorship. Presented by Black Cracker.