Korea National Opera begins its four-year journey through Wagner’s 'Ring' this week

The Korea National Opera raises the curtain Thursday on “Das Rheingold,” starting a four-year project to stage all of Richard Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” No Korean company has done this before. The production runs through Sunday at the Seoul Arts Center’s Opera Theater, 150 years after the cycle was first performed in full in 1876. The other three operas will follow through 2029. “As this is the first time in Korean opera history that a company is producing all four ‘Ring’ operas itself