Lars, Lord of the Ring
- The Danish film director, Lars von Trier, tries his hand at directing opera: his version of Wagner's Ring Cycle will be at the Bayreuth festival for 2006
Lars von Trier is about to make a lifelong dream come true. The Danish director has assisted the Bayreuth festival for many years now, and he´s been waiting for the opportunity to make his own version of the famous Richard Wagner´s opera The Ring of The Nibelungen. The occasion came during the Cannes festival in 1998, where he publicly expressed his love for operas and soon after, the Bayreuth festival gave him an offer to direct this great work. In a few days he will planning his staging of Wagner´s mammoth 3-day opera.
He will be working on this project along with the conductor Christian Thielman and the Icelandic set designer Karl Júliusson, with whom he has worked on most of his films. His version of the opera will not be shown until 2006, but Trier is already making contact with the main opera singers.
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