In 2002, film director Lars von Trier agreed to stage Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle in Bayreuth. The project was abandoned, however, after two years of preparation. For this article’s research, I conducted interviews with key persons involved with the project, not least Lars von Trier himself, and I was given access to unseen materials (documents, videotapes and other items) from the archives of Lars von Trier’s film company, Zentropa, which shed light both on the director’s plans for the production and on the process that would eventually spell the end of the project. The materials, however, turned out to illuminate not only what the opera world lost, but also what von Trier’s later films gained from his immersion into Wagner’s creative world. In this article I seek to map both the ill-fated process and explore the later benefits from it in the films Antichrist (2009), Nymphomaniac (2013) and, above all, Melancholia (2011), with its echoes of Wagner’s apocalyptic Götterdämmerung.

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拉尔斯·冯·提尔遗失的戒指

2002 年，电影导演拉斯冯提尔同意上演理查德瓦格纳的戒指在拜罗伊特骑自行车。然而，经过两年的准备，该项目被放弃了。在本文的研究中，我采访了参与该项目的关键人物，尤其是 Lars von Trier 本人，并且我获得了从 Lars von Trier 的电影公司 Zentropa 的档案中获取的看不见的材料（文件、录像带和其他物品） ，这揭示了导演的制作计划和最终将结束项目的过程。然而，事实证明，这些材料不仅说明了歌剧世界所失去的东西，而且也说明了冯提尔后来的电影从他沉浸在瓦格纳的创作世界中所获得的东西。在这篇文章中，我试图描绘这命运多舛的过程，并在电影中探索它后来的好处敌基督(2009),花痴（2013 年），最重要的是，忧郁症（2011），与瓦格纳的世界末日相呼应Götterdämmerung.