Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts “Rings” – Västerbotten Courier

The Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will take up for the first time than Richard Wagner’s mammoth opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen”. The performances are set up at the Helsinki Opera in four parts, with two performances a year, writes Dagens Nyheter. The first part, “Das Rheingold”, will premiere in 2019, followed by “Die Walküre” in spring 2020, “Siegfried” in autumn 2020, and finally the “Ragnarok” conveyed the spring 2021st