Enter a living Wagner universe where heroes, gods and legendary music unfold around you. One of opera history’s boldest works is reborn as a new immersive experience inspired by Richard Wagner’s vision of the total artwork. A ring that never truly ends.

Original composer and librettist
Richard Wagner 

Concept and creation of this new experience
Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg
Marlene Schleicher og  
Kirstine Fogh Vindelev

The making of

Some operas carry a near-mythic sense of reverence around them. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is one of them. "In the traditional Ring, everything is controlled down to the smallest detail," says director Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg. "What happens when the audience is allowed to move freely inside the work?"

The Ring - Forever Hot is created as a contemporary response to Wagner's idea of the Gesamtkunstwek - a total work of art where music, scenography, sound, installation and audience merge into one shared expereince.

A new generation of opera makers has been given one of opera history's most iconic works to reimagine. The team has been developing the piece intensively over the past three years. The images shown her are from a 2025 work-in-progress presentation of Wagner Lab. Photos by: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen.

Dates
16. - 22. august

Venue
AFUK på Vesterbro

Duration 
Approx. 3 hours

Tickets
300 kr

The production is initiated and produced by Copenhagen Opera Festival and co-produced by Malmö Opera.

Instruktør
Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg

Dramaturg
Marlene Schleicher

Komponist og lyddesigner
Kirstine Fogh Vindelev 

Scenografi og kostumedesign
Olivia von Lüttichau
Camilla Lønbirk

Lysdesign
Frederik Hougs

Tonemester og lyddesign
Tommy Kamp Vestergaard

Lydteknik
Søren Moore

Dirigent ved indspilning og musikalsk konsulent
Robert Houssart

Dirigent 
Leon Reimer

Makeup og Special Effects Artist
Lu Wohlers

Instruktørassistent
Nada Zimmermann

Scenograf- og kostumeassistent
Julie Savery