The outdated ghosts are again: The Nibelungen Competition started in Worms am Rhein with the celebratory premiere of the German-English cooperation “The Hun Queen”. This was proven on the stage in entrance of the Imperial Cathedral ensemble with Maria Dragus because the revenge-thirsty Kriemhild and Aram Tafreshian because the Hun King Etzel, a present variation of the intriguing epic.
The historic materials in regards to the dragon slayer Siegfried and his assassin Hagen is taken into account one of many biggest German tales. In “The Hun Queen” the London theater firm Les Enfants Terribles presents the legend of betrayal and destruction as a cross-genre spectacle of theater and dance in addition to music by singer Alice Merton (“No Roots”).
Celebrities on and in entrance of the stage
After round three hours of play with a break, there was quite a lot of applause from the greater than 1,400 spectators within the open-air space late on Friday night. Among the many premiere visitors had been Federal Protection Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) and the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate Gordon Schnieder (CDU).
“That’s precisely the state of affairs we stay in right now,” Pistorius informed the German Press Company in regards to the battle for conflict and peace within the piece. “We’ve got to be defensive and know that peace can grow to be fragile if we aren’t ready to guard it.”
The competition has been going down since 2002 and runs till August 2nd beneath the course of Nico Hofmann. The Nibelungen are one of many Germans’ favourite legends. The placement of the competition is historic floor: a key scene, the argument of the queens, takes place on the north aspect of the cathedral – the place the stage is.
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