Rising Israeli conductor Dan Ettinger will complete, in Tokyo in March, his first series of performances of "The Ring of the Nibelung," a cycle of four linked operas by 19th-century composer Richard Wagner.

Wagner's music has been unofficially forbidden to be performed in Israel.

"I'm split in my feelings and have to live in two different personalities. On one hand, as a musician, I feel sorry about the Wagner taboo in Israel," Ettinger says. "There is a lack of experience for musicians to finish their study or even their career without playing Wagner's music."