Ring Award

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The RING AWARD is an international music theater competition for direction and stage design. Its aim is to offer young and not yet established directors and stage designers a professional platform for practical work by awarding outstanding achievements. The competition originally arose from an initiative of the WAGNER FORUM GRAZ to promote young talent. The cooperation partners of the RING AWARD are the Graz stages (Graz Opera , Schauspielhaus Graz , Next Liberty , art + event) and the Graz University of Art (especially the Institute for Stage Design). Heinz Weyringer is the artistic director.

The award

The RING AWARD is held every three years in Graz , Austria and is divided into three stages, whereby its specialty is that it leads to a concrete stage implementation. In the first stage, the RING AWARD jury, consisting of European music theater directors and experts, sifts through all the (anonymised) concepts submitted and nominates nine teams for the semifinals. In the semifinals (second stage) the teams present their staging designs and stage set models in front of the jury and the audience. Furthermore, work samples and concept discussions are included in the evaluation. Three teams will be nominated for the final (third stage) and will implement a given excerpt from the competition opera 1: 1 with piano accompaniment on the main stage of the Schauspielhaus Graz .

Conditions of participation

The RING AWARD is public and accessible to candidates from all countries. Eligible to participate are directors and stage designers who can demonstrate appropriate training or artistic experience and who have not yet carried out an independent staging work on a larger stage. Participants should not be over 35 years of age. To participate, at least one director and a stage designer have to form a team; other team members from areas such as costume, dramaturgy, video art, conducting, etc. are also possible. The submission is made in two parts, on the one hand by registering online and on the other hand by sending a portfolio by post.

The main prize is the "RING AWARD", which includes an offer from the Graz Opera for a production including stage design at one of its venues. Cash prizes for 2nd and 3rd place as well as an audience prize in the semifinals are available. Traditionally, several theaters and opera houses award further special prizes in the final in the form of staging offers including stage design.

RING AWARD jury

The RING AWARD jury consists of renowned music theater directors and experts. The jury of the RING AWARD 20 consists of the following members:

  1. Ole Wiggo Bang, Artistic Director, Wermland Opera, Karlstad
  2. Valérie Chevalier, Directrice Générale, Opéra Orchester National Montpellier
  3. Peter de Caluwe, Directeur Général, La Monnaie / De Munt , Bruxelles
  4. Heribert Germeshausen , Artistic Director, Dortmund Opera
  5. Roland Geyer , Artistic Director, Theater an der Wien
  6. Per Boye Hansen , Opera Director, National Theater Prague
  7. Stefan Herheim , director, design. Intendant Theater an der Wien
  8. Iris Laufenberg , director, Schauspielhaus Graz , chair
  9. Nora Schmid , artistic director, Graz Opera , chair
  10. Dietmar Schwarz , Artistic Director, Deutsche Oper Berlin
  11. Peter Spuhler , General Director, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
  12. Katrin Lea Tag , stage designer and costume designer
  13. Peter Theiler , artistic director, Semperoper Dresden
  14. Albrecht Thiemann, " Opera World "
  15. Jan Vandenhouwe, Artistic Director, Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp
  16. Reinhard von der Thannen , stage designer and costume designer
  17. Benedikt von Peter , director, director of the Lucerne Theater , design. Artistic director, Theater Basel

Competitions and award winners

year Surname Competition opera Finalists Award winners
1997 1st International Competition for Direction and Stage Design Richard Wagner,

" Rheingold "

Silke Kosbü / Christine Tritthart

Robert Olwitz / Isabel Ostermann / Christian Gschier

Holger Müller-Brandes / Katrin Lea Tag
2000 2nd International Competition for Direction and Stage Design (Special: Cyberstaging) Richard Wagner,

" Parsifal "

Tatjana Gürbaca / Gerhard Mayer

Vera Nemirova / Tom Musch

Cyberstaging: Christoph Rodatz / Anja Diefenbach

David Hermann
2003 RING AWARD 03: 3rd International Competition for Direction and Set Design (Special: hoffmann.remixed) Jacques Offenbach,

" Les contes d'Hoffmann "

Claudia Blersch / Giulio Bernardi

Andrea Kilian / Tassilo Tesche

Leo Krischke / Sofia Mazzoni

(not awarded)
2005 RING AWARD 05: 4th international competition for direction and stage design (Special: stageXplorer) WA Mozart,

" Le nozze di Figaro "

Elena Artioukhina / Etel Ioshpa (City of Graz Prize)

Orpha Phelan / Leslie Travers

stageXplorer: Marcus Dross / Christoph Rodatz / Michael Wolters

Anna Malunat / Jan Kattein / Magdolina Parditka
2008 RING AWARD 08: 5th International Competition for Direction and Set Design (Special: ring.award.off) Giuseppe Verdi,

" Rigoletto "

Alexander Charim / Julia Kneusels / Annegret Riediger

Dorothea Kirschbaum / Julia Müer

ring.award.off: Beate Baron / Justyna Jaszczuk / Genoel Rühle

Tobias Kratzer / Rainer Sellmaier
2011 RING AWARD 11: 6th International Competition for Direction and Set Design 2011 (Special: ring.award.off) Johann Strauss,

" The bat "

Johannes Rieder / Thomas Unthan

Hannes Kapsch / Trixy Tiny Lucy Royeck

ring.award.off: Morten K. Roesen / Nikolaus Webern / Carla Caminati

Sam Brown / Annemarie Woods
2014 RING AWARD 14: 7th international competition for direction and stage design Carl Maria von Weber,

" Der Freischütz "

Christiane Lutz / Natascha Maraval

Dan Turdén / Marie Moberg

Verena Stoiber / Sophia Schneider
2017 RING AWARD 17: 8th international music theater competition for direction and stage design Gaetano Donizetti,

" Don Pasquale "

Sergei Morozov / Aleksandra Alekseeva

Barbora Horáková Joly / Cornelia Schmidt (City of Graz Prize)

Valentin Schwarz / Andrea Cozzi
2020 RING AWARD 20: 9th international music theater competition for direction and stage design Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

" Don Giovanni "

Alicia Geugelin / Christin Schumann / Pia Preuß / Elise Schobeß

Krystian Lada / Didzis Jaunzems / Natalia Kitamikado

Anika Rutkofsky / Eleni Konstantatou / Johanna Danhauser

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RING AWARD: RING AWARD website. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Persché: Wunderkammer. In: Opernwelt Magazin. Theater Verlag, August 2017, accessed on October 8, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ History of the Wagner Forum Graz. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Pia Moser: 9th International Music Theater Competition for Direction and Stage Design. “Achtzig” - Die Kulturzeitung, January 18, 2019, accessed on October 8, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ RING AWARD. IG Kultur, accessed on October 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Registration and submission. RING AWARD, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Holger Müller-Brandes. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Student things on the opera stage. Standard, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sam Brown, director. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ring Award 2014 to the German women's team. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ring Award 2017 went to Schwarz and Cozzi. ORF Steiermark, accessed on October 8, 2019 .