In 2006 Lars von Trier was to stage the Wagner opera ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ at the Bayreuther Festspiele. In 2004 he realized that he would not be able to fulfil his ambitions for the staging and therefore he withdrew from the production.

The notes by Lars von Trier for Die Walküre and Siegfried are available here together with an explanation about his ideas for the production. So far the notes are available only in Danish and German.

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