REBECCA RIEDEL

VIDEO SCENOGRAPHY / Theatre & Opera

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RHEINGOLD

Concept and realisation of stage videos for the opera by Richard Wagner

Staatsoper Stuttgart / 2021



Compilation of video sequences from Rheingold

Stage view with rear projection on white curt
Stage views front projection on wooden wall 
Stage views front projection on wooden wall 
Stage views front projection on wooden wall 
Stills from sequences Alberich and Freia
Stills from sequence Fricka






When the floods of the Rhine emerge from a single note at the beginning of the Ring of the Nibelung, it sounds as if the world follows an unshakeable elemental order. But after just a few minutes, Wagner locates a momentous fall from grace within it: the cursing of love and the theft of gold by Alberich. From then on, the entire mythical cast is caught up in precarious family and business relationships: an unaffordable prestige building, dubious contracts, indebted business partners, women as equity that can be seized. And each of them becomes even more entangled with every step and every new musical motif.




DIRECTOR Stephan Kimmig STAGE Katja Haß  COSTUMES Anja Rabes VIDEO Rebecca Riedel CHOREOGRAPHY Bahar Meriç LIGHTING Gerrit Jurda MUSICAL DIRECTION Cornelis Meister 

FILM: DIRECTOR/EDITING Rebecca Riedel CAMERA/ASSISTANCE Anna Gohmert SETS/LIGHTING Coco Bayer, Adrian Stapf, COSTUMES Valentina Obergnatschnig