With a total running time of around 16 hours, Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung is one of the most monumental epics that the opera stage has ever seen. Is it therefore even possible to tell this gigantic stage festival in a single evening? Absolutely! The German humorist Loriot made it possible and masterfully captured the essence of the drama in just a few words: "The perpetrators in the most powerful drama in music history are actually very nice people. Only one shared passion is their undoing: they want to own more than they can afford, more power than they are entitled to. In a blind, loveless pursuit of profit, they destroy themselves and their world. ... Fortunately, such things only happen on the opera stage."

The Ring in One Evening

Opernhaus Dortmund

Princess Rosalia is in a bad mood. Her tutor Marquis Stuck keeps telling her how she should be a "real" princess: how she should talk, sit, dress and behave. But she has no desire to do this and would much rather do everything completely differently. Her persistent resistance makes her tutor wonder: is there really only one way something can be "right"? In Being a princess? No, thank you! In the end, very little is as it seemed at the beginning. A story about self-determination, finding one's identity and questioning imposed role models - told with well-known melodies from operas by WA Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and others.

Nina Albrecht-Paffendorf

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Jan 29 - Feb 19, 2025

The Ring in One Evening · Theater Dortmund

Jan 23, 2025

Be a princess? No thanks! · Theater Dortmund

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