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Water Damage turned into luck The Rhine is where Richard Wagner's cycle of operas InchDer Ring des NibelungenInch begins and ends - and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work. Even if Wagner's plans for a festival would ultimately be realized in an entirely different part of Germany, the performance of a InchRing on the RhineInch will always remain something very special. And where better to make this happen than at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein? Two cities, two orchestras, two casts of singers - with the Rhine opera's fantastic ensemble of singers and it's two outstanding orchestras, the Duisburger Philharmoniker and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, at their two venues in Duisburg und Düsseldorf, the essential conditions were in place. The InchRing on the RhineInch staged by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf and under my own musical direction gradually began to take shape from June 2017 onwards. The successful conclusion of this two year musical and scenic collaboration was planned for the end of the 2018/19 season with the performance of a complete InchRingInch cycle at each of the two venues. However, a few weeks before the premiere of InchGötterdämmerungInch, a defective sprinkler system flooded Theater Duisburg. The damage this caused made completing the staged InchRingInch cycle in Duisburg (for the time being) impossible...Inch (From the Editorial of Axel Kober)
