OPERA
Slideshow
Video Clip
(English)
Credits
- by Richard Wagner
- Design and Production
Ex Machina - Director
Robert Lepage - Assistant Director
Neilson Vignola - Set Designer
Carl Fillion - Lighting Designer
Etienne Boucher - Costume Designer
François Saint-Aubin - Video Artist (Rheingold & Walküre)
Boris Firquet - Video Artist (Siegfried)
Pedro Pires - Video Artist (Götterdämmerung)
Lionel Arnould - Performers of shot shadows
(Walküre, Act I)
Olivier Lunardi-Dussault (plus combat choregrapher), Ella and Lily-Anne Barry-Brisson (twins), Geneviève Bérubé, Sébastien Fortin, Katrine Patry, Jacinthe Pauzé Boisvert, Francis Roberge, Jean-François Savard, Pascal Tremblay - Workshop performers
Anne Barry, Geneviève Bérubé, Guillaume Chouinard, Michael Duffy, Andrea Legg, Guy Lessard, Jacinthe Pauzé Boisvert, Jenny Ritchie, Francis Roberge, Éric Robidoux, Martin Vaillancourt - Initial Interactive Video Designer
(Rheingold & Walküre)
Holger Förterer - Interactive Content Designers
Realisations.net - Artistic and Musical Consultant
Rebecca Blankenship - Set Construction
Scène Éthique - Costume Production
(Rheingold & Prototypes)
Atelier de couture Sonya B. - Costume Property Production
(Rheingold & Prototypes)
Richard Provost & Valérie Deschênes - Research, wigs and make-up
(Rheingold & Prototypes)
Florence Cornet - Property Production
Atelier Sylvain Racine, Paul Duval, Boscus, Théâtre de la Dame de Cœur, Créations Fillion, Tridim - Property Project Manager
Stéphane Longpré - Rig & Safety Adviser
Guy St-Amour (Productions Artefact) - SFX Integrator
Philippe Jean (Les Ateliers numériques) - Automation Designer
Tobie Horswill - Video Project Manager
Catherine Guay - Lighting Assistants
Valy Tremblay / David Lavallée (Proluxon) - Costume Assistant
(Rheingold & Prototypes)
Jessica Poirier-Chang - Set Designer Assistants
Anna Tusell Sanchez / Santiago Martos Gonzalez - Costume project Manager
(Rheingold & Prototypes)
Charline Boulerice - Rehearsal stage Manager
Félix Dagenais - Technical Director
Michel Gosselin - Assistant Technical Director
Eric Gautron - Production Director
Bernard Gilbert - Production Assistant
Viviane Paradis
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen is one of the most ambitious works written for the Western stage. Created in 1876, this “scenic festival staged in a prologue and three days”, as Wagner named it, consists of four operas totalling more than fifteen hours of music. The invitation extended to Robert Lepage and Ex Machina by the New York Metropolitan Opera, to create a new production of this masterpiece, shows the high degree of recognition the company now enjoys.
In the legendary universe created by Wagner, the gods compete with giants and the Nibelungen; heroes alongside humans, who in the end of the tetralogy dominate the Earth. This story is influenced by Scandinavian, German and Greek mythologies. Thirsty for gold, power or love, the characters of the Ring provide a fertile ground for dramatic conflicts and universal archetypes.
Robert Lepage and the design team have started working on this project since the fall of 2006, through workshops, research, creation and development held mainly at La Caserne in Quebec City. Ex Machina’s Ring for the Metropolitan Opera will be presented during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons, with presentation of the complete cycle in the spring of 2012.
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