Sat, Sep 30, 3 pm

The Making Of Der Ring des Nibelungen
A documentary with Pierre Boulez, Patrice Chereau, Brian Large, Wolfgang Wagner, Friedlind Wagner, Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre and many more
The beauty of the Ring Cycle is just as challenging today as when it was first performed one hundred years ago. This documentary portrays the creative process of the controversial 1981 production of the Ring at the Bayreuther Festpiele, Germany. It set new aesthetic standards in the interpretation of Richard Wagner’s masterpiece, and with young stage director Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez, one of the most important musical modernists of the twentieth-century, Wolfgang Wagner put together a dream team to find a new, modern yet timeless approach to his grandfather’s work, regarding both music and staging.
"Chéreau’s vision, which has been adapted with remarkable skill by director Brian Large, is a theatrical triumph." -- Newsweek, 2005

Sat, Sep 30, 4 pm

The Rhinegold, by Richard Wagner

large-screen projection, 143 min, with intermission with snacks and drinks.
Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez (Conductor), Patrice Chéreau (Stage Director), and Brian Large (Video Director) .

In this illuminating performance of Wagner ‘s The Rhinegold, the prologue to the Ring Cycle, stage director Patrice Chéreau takes the story out of the vaguely medieval fantasy world in which Wagner had placed it and transfers it into modern times.

The Ring Cycle continues at the Goethe Institut’s Kinowelt Hall with