ERDA SPEAKING HELLOHELLO

Fast asleep, she is perhaps the dreaming earth that contemplates her creation without regard to the person: Wagner's Erda, "the world's wisest Wala" and Wotan's only intrepid admonisher, whom he has repeatedly tried to abuse for his own purposes. In collaboration with the artificial intelligence text generator GPT3 and the avant-garde musician Ville Haimala, director Felix Rothenhäusler rewrites the Ring of the Nibelung from her point of view and lets her ask in the voice of mezzo-soprano Shannon Keegan: What would a future without us look like? What would a future look like without us, one in which we once again become part of creation and not engineers of life and destiny? Come with us on a dream journey into Erda's visions.