At the end of Götterdämmerung, the director Valentin Schwarz received a standing ovation Bayreuth. On the other hand, clapping and cheering didn’t stand a chance. The Austrian director and his team asked the audience for the long-awaited grand finale of the film Richard Wagner four parts Mammoth Opera Cycle “Ring of the Nibelung“. And at the same time, so many open questions were resolved, which the audience gathered during the four-part production of Rheingold, Valkyrie, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.
At the end of Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen” the world of the gods perishes, the Wahall castle of the gods burns. Many directors have already been inspired by the scenario of the end of the world – burning house facades or big explosions. With Valentin Schwarz, everything ends with an empty pool, three dead, one of them Siegfried, one of the main characters of the story.
Wagner series format
For the tension of the opera cycle, 33-year-old Valentin Schwarz relied on series formats, each opera as a separate episode of the series season, which can be consumed in a short period of time in succession through so-called binge-watching. . Richard Wagner had more or less provided the template for this, since since the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, the Ring des Nibelungen with the parts Rheingold, Valkyrie, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung had always been performed. a week
