A stage show that used AI at Richard Wagner festival received boos from the crowd and left some spectators confused by the references to 9/11 and German stamps.
AI-assisted projections accompanied Saturday’s performance of Götterdämmerung, showing images like former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the towers of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and a special postage stamp marking German reunification in 1990.
It also included scenes from previous performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle and historical themes, and drew from images pre-selected by Lobbes, the director of the Academy for Theater and Digitality in Dortmund, and his team.
Curator Marcus Lobbes
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