Pietari Inkinen will conduct Die Walküre, the second part and most frequently performed opera of Richard Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on April 29, May 1, and May 3, 2025. The cast includes Ewa Vesin as the titular heroine, Egils Silins as Wotan, Manuela Uhl as Sieglinde, Daniel Brenna as Siegmund, Okka von der Damerau as Fricka, and Liang Li as Hunding in the leading roles.
The Finnish conductor has a special affinity for Wagner’s music. In 2023, he conducted the entire Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival to rave reviews. Earlier in his career, he led the tetralogy at Opera Australia in Melbourne, earning the Helpmann Award in 2014 and the Green Room Award for Best Opera Conductor in 2016.

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About the Conductor:

At the age of four, Pietari Inkinen received his first musical lessons. As a teenager, the Finnish conductor, born in 1980, began studying the violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he also attended Jorma Panula’s conducting class. Further studies took him to Zakhar Bron at the Cologne University of Music and back to Helsinki to Leif Segerstam. From 2008 to 2016, he was the chief conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and in 2014 and 2015, he spent five years each as chief conductor of the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. A special place in the conductor’s career is held by the music of Richard Wagner: in 2014, he conducted Der Ring des Nibelungen for the first time at Opera Australia in Melbourne, and in 2021, he conducted Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival. There, he conducted the complete Tetralogy in 2023. Pietari Inkinen is in demand worldwide at opera houses from Helsinki to Brussels, Dresden, and Berlin, and has also worked with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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