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Reinhard J Brembeck
Wotan, Michael Volle, is overwhelming as a patriarch, has always relied on men, machos and muscles. For him, women are primarily sex objects, and perhaps that’s why he underestimated his daughter Brünnhilde. But at the Berlin State Opera it is Anja Kampe’s Brünnhilde, who is as humane as she is capable of learning, who clears away the crumbling world of the patriarch and, encouraged by her old mother Erda, sets off into the void of the finally black and empty stage. Into a brave new world in which men will have less say, in which the rule of thumb no longer counts, but brains and feelings for once. The visitors celebrate for twenty minutes, they all get up very soon and cheer the grandiose singers and above all the conductor Christian Thielemann almost without a boo. After all, no theater in the world can come up with a better cast for Richard Wagner’s four-part film about the upheaval of the world, “The Ring of the Nibelung”.