About the event 'The Flying Dutchman'

Adrianne Pieczonka as Senta teams up with three other great singers, James Morris, Klaus Florian Vogt and Matti Salminen, in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" at the Bastille Opera House in Paris.

Halfway through its new Ring cycle, the Paris Opera will resound to the music of a young Wagner still wrapped in the mists of German Romanticism, between Schubert and Weber. Crossing the North Sea from Riga to London on board the Thetis in 1839, amid the howling wind and the crashing waves, Wagner heard the sailors tell the legend of the cursed sea-captain. The story, also told by Heinrich Heine, is recounted by Senta on her first appearance: rounding a dangerous cape during a storm and refusing to give up, the Dutchman defies Satan and is condemned to roam the seas for evermore unless a woman is willing to give up her life for him. In a troubling confusion of legend and real life, the Dutchman suddenly stands before Senta and stretches out his hand to her... The storm raging outside is perhaps less powerful than the one that shakes the heart.

Recounting the impossibility of living and of redemption, "Der fliegende Holländer" is above all, and before "Götterdämmerung", an opera about wished-for apocalypse.

Peter Schneider, Conductor
Willy Decker, Stage Director
Wolfgang Gussmann, Sets and costumes
Hans Toelstede, Lighting
Patrick Marie Aubert, Chorus master

Adrianne Pieczonka, Senta

Klaus Florian Vogt, Erik

Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Mary

Bernard Richter, Der Steuermann

James Morris, Der Höllander

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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