An Innovating and Emblematic Staging: "The Ring of the Nibelung" by Patrice Chéreau.

  • Lidia Martínez Landa Universidad de Buenos Aires
Keywords: Chéreau, opera, Tetralogie, Wagner, Shaw, transposition

Abstract

Patrice Chéreau stages the events of The Ring of the Nibelung as contemporary to Wagner's writing of the opera. This temporal dislocation allows him to focus the action on he modern social conflict between rich and poor classes and to highlight the sufferings of proletariat. He thus follows certain ideas of George Bernard Shaw's The Perfect Wagnerite. Chéreau's Tetralogie is not merely a new chapter in the history of The Ring's performances, but represents a revolution in the conception of staging, which is valid up to the present.

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Published
2006-12-01
How to Cite
Martínez Landa, L. (2006). An Innovating and Emblematic Staging: "The Ring of the Nibelung" by Patrice Chéreau. Telondefondo. Revista De Teoría Y Crítica Teatral, (4), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.34096/tdf.n4.9517
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