Berlin/Dresden (dpa/sn) - The Dresden Music Festival is to receive two million euros from the federal government for the performance of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen". The money from the budget of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, Claudia Roth (Greens), should be used for the comprehensive development and performance of the opera in the original sound, according to a statement from the music festival on Friday. This includes, among other things, the establishment of an international Wagner Academy in Dresden.
The project is to be implemented under the direction of the American conductor Kent Nagano and the director of the music festival, Jan Vogler, and in cooperation with the Orchestra Concerto Köln. The performance will be accompanied by lectures, workshops and symposiums. The German composer Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883.
