For the festival's 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner's tetralogy's past, present - and future. U nveiled the same week in which tech company Anthropic admitted that its AI model Claude had gone rogue during testing, Bayreuth festival's new AI-generated staging of Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelungen is at least timely. But anyone who assumes that the cycle's obsession with knowledge, power and possession might make it an ideal forum for reflection on AI as a major contemporary frontier will be disappointed, as will anyone hopeful about AI's creative potential within opera. Commissioned to mark the festival's 150th anniversary, the production is "curated" - emphatically not "directed" - by a team led by German stage director Marcus Lobbes . He apparently spent weeks in dialogue with AI models about possible interpretations of the Ring.

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