The Ring: Next Generation, Deutsche Oper Berlin

Over het evenement

In 2013, the year of Wagner celebrations, the Deutsche Oper Berlin invites 80 young people to team up with a production crew, a composer, classical musicians, and singers to create an experimental evening of musical theatre.

In Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, the hopes of the elders rest on the next generation. It is up to the children and grandchildren, Siegmund, Sieglinde, and Brünnhilde, to save the world for their parents. Drawing on characters from Wagner's Ring, the project addresses the following questions: Can the younger generation act as a beacon of hope for a new, improved world — and does it want to? How do young people deal with the expectations placed on them by their elders? What kind of future do youngsters see for themselves? What are the hopes and fears of today's "next generation"?

Conductor: Moritz Gnann
Stage‐Production: Robert Lehniger
Installation: Tobias Yves Zintel
Costume‐design: Irene Ip
Choreographer: Emmanuel Obeya
Dramaturge: Dorothea Hartmann
DJ: Mathis Mootz