Marcus Lobbes, director of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality, is curating The Ring of the Nibelung to mark the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival.
Next year, a new chapter of The Ring of the Nibelung will open in Bayreuth. Using new imaging techniques and a mixture of live coding, artificial intelligence and holography, a monumental tetralogy, a world of power, love, betrayal and downfall, and at the same time a place of constant transformation, will be curated with new imaging techniques. With a mixture of live coding, artificial intelligence and holography, Marcus Lobbes and his team are creating an experiment of visionary power. Under the title ‘RING 10010110’, Richard Wagner's music drama and its reception history take centre stage – through a visual level that is constantly changing, expanding, recomposing and contradicting itself. For the first time in the history of the festival, artificial intelligence will play live on stage – not as a character, but as an imaging force.
The artistic team consists of Christian Thielemann (musical director), Marcus Lobbes (curator), Marcus Lobbes and Nils Corte (artistic-technical conception), Andri Hardmeier (dramaturgy), Roman Senkl (digital and AI storytelling), Nils Corte and Phil Hagen Jungschlaeger (creative code/visual art), Wolf Gutjahr (stage design) and Pia Maria Mackert (costumes).
‘RING 10010110’ is a collaboration between the Bayreuth Festival and the Academy for Theatre and Digitality.