In 2018 Theater Chemnitz will take on one of the greatest challenges in music theatre and bring Richard Wagner’s massive tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen to the stage.

At the centre of the Chemnitz debate is the impulse that is decisive for all four musical dramas of the cycle: the woman. Women play central roles in Wagner’s Ring. The world order lies in the hands of Erda. The women, be they the Rhinemaidens, Freia or Brünnhilde, let the men lose their temper, which leads to the devastating tragedies. A woman is the only one to survive the slaughter of the Twilight of the Gods: Gutrune. The women are the leading figures – with very different goals.

So it is only logical that not one, but four directors take on the tetralogy in a staged way. Verena Stoiber, Monique Wagemakers, Sabine Hartmannshenn and Elisabeth Stöppler will examine the four parts of the Ring for their very individual internal structures – from a specifically female point of view? In contrast, the musical direction is in the hands of the new Chemnitz General Music Director Guillermo García Calvo and the First Kapellmeister Felix Bender. This artistic tension gives reason to open up new perspectives on Wagner’s complex opera cycle.

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