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 curtStage 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 FreiaStills 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