Treat for fans as Wagner work to be staged in Beijing

In 1967, the first Salzburg Easter Festival presented a production of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, also known as Ring Cycle, conducted by Herbert von Karajan (1908-89).

That year, Jaap van Zweden was a 7-year-old boy, who loved playing football and the violin.

Five decades later, Van Zweden, the Dutch conductor, who is the music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and will be the next music director of the New York Philharmonic starting with the 2018-19 season, will take the baton and lead the Hong Kong Philharmonic to perform Die Walkure, one section of the Ring Cycle, based on the original version of Karajan.