Wagner’s Ring Cycle to Make Its Chinese Debut, with Simon Rattle Conducting – Yan Wuji

From China Daily, via Andante.com:

The Nuremberg State Theatre is to introduce Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera epic Der Ring des Nibelungen to music lovers at the Eighth Beijing Music Festival.…

Yu Long, artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival, said: “This is a historic moment for Asia.” Yu is proud to be able to present the masterwork at the eighth festival. Never before has a Wagner opera been staged in Beijing.