(Yicai Global) Aug. 10 -- The Beijing Music Festival's (BMF) 20th anniversary is coming this fall. The BMF will work with the Salzburg Easter Festival this year to show Die Walkure, an opera featured in Herbert von Karajan's 1967 documentary Karajan -- The Maestro and His Festival.

Half a century ago, maestro Karajan conducted Berliner Philharmoniker to perform the second act of Wagner's masterpiece Der Ring Des Nibelungen -- Die Walkure, when he founded the music festival in Salzburg. The show sold out a year in advance with tickets priced at USD60, which was not cheap at the time.

Fifty years have passed, and BMF will cooperate with Salzburg Easter Festival to put Die Walkure on the stage again, accurately restoring Karajan's 1967 performance by retaining the dark and magical choreography while integrating abstract factors using modern technologies. Die Walkure is highly worthy of expectation as it will be sung by top vocalists such as Stuart Skelton, Vitalji Kowaljow and Mihoko Fujimura. Karajan' widow, Eliette Mouretear, will watch the performance in Beijing.

Jaap van Zweden, who has become popular in the music circles, will be the conductor of the opera. He will formally serve as the music director of the New York Philharmonic in the 2018 to 2019 season.

The BMF will host 29 shows including symphonies, church music acts, operas and concerts for children from October 8 to 29 and hold 12 public benefit education activities including master's classes, concert introductions, weekend family days and public rehearsal viewings.