Romeo Castellucci is an artist. Other directors are directors and implement works on stage. Castellucci does that too, at the same time he creates art spaces, installations, situations, his own worlds in which he tells what is fundamentally important to him. He then speaks of humanity itself, of pain and transience. There is certainly a lot of this in Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung”, but not necessarily in “Rheingold”, the opening of the tetralogy. “Rheingold” is a conversational comedy, a marital dispute and even, when Alberich is in a clinch with the Rhinemaidens, slapstick. It’s also immediate theater, after all, this is where the tracks for what’s to come are laid. But a drama of eschatological force?
Romeo Castellucci stages Wagner’s “Rheingold” in Brussels – Culture
