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Documentary film series 4 episodes of 40 minutes each and cinema documentary 90 minutes.

The power of the ring

An opera team puts the power of Wagner's cursed ring to the test.

I'm taking you behind the scenes of the Opéra de Paris for two years, where the opera director Calixto Bieito and we, his directing team, are facing the ultimate challenge. Our sixteen-hour Ring will be a radically contemporary work of art that begins with nothing less than the Big Bang and - after the power- and money-obsessed ring-wearing family has heartlessly dragged the world into the abyss - ends in the virtual apocalypse. In the Paris Opera, which is heavily in debt to the tune of 170 million due to Corona, the curse of the Ring threatens to be passed on to us, the team. We are being asked to give our all so that we don't have to renounce love like our protagonists and sacrifice our ten-year friendship for fame and honor.

Teasers
The Ring production is the Holy Grail of every opera career. The pressure and the discrepancy between our wishes and our financial possibilities is great, our Ring production threatens to become a tightrope walk with no security, because the Ring interpretation decides how an opera directing career will go down in the history books.
What if, during our production in Paris, the power of Wagner's cursed ring is transferred to us, the directing team? What if our knighthood flops and we never work together as a team again because we are unable to cope with the conflicts we encounter?

Film Director

Opera Video Artist

Sarah Derendinger

Opera Director

Calixto Bieto

Opra Stage Design

Rebecca Ringst

Opera Conductor

NN

Year & Format

2026 / HD

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