DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER
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DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER
Booking Period 5 - 24 February 2015
Running Time 2 Hours 20 Minutes no interval
Sung in German with English surtitles
The Flying Dutchman has been cursed for eternity. Once every seven years he is allowed to come ashore to seek redemption. He may have found it in Senta, a woman who longs for escape from her dreary life.
Shortly before the premiere of Der fliegende Holl§nder in Dresden, Wagner had returned from a deeply unsuccessful two-year stint in Paris. He had gone there to make his fortune, but found his way barred by a strict class-based system. One of the bitterest blows came when L┌on Pillet, director of the Paris Op┌ra, accepted his libretto for Der fliegende Holl§nder - but then commissioned a score not from Wagner but from French composer Pierre-Louis Dietsch. But the Dresden premieres of first Rienzi in October 1842 and Der fliegende Holl§nder in January 1843 were immense successes, and marked the beginning of Wagner's career as one of the greatest operatic composers.
Tim Albery's Olivier-nominated production for The Royal Opera delves deep into the psychology of Wagner's cursed wanderer and his beloved Senta, detailing the monomania and uncompromising idealism that finally drives them apart. Michael Levine's elemental single set is dominated by a rolling metal hull that represents the Dutchman's phantom ship, the poverty of Senta's home and the treacherous sea.
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER
Booking Period 5 - 24 February 2015
Running Time 2 Hours 20 Minutes no interval
Sung in German with English surtitles
The Flying Dutchman has been cursed for eternity. Once every seven years he is allowed to come ashore to seek redemption. He may have found it in Senta, a woman who longs for escape from her dreary life.
Shortly before the premiere of Der fliegende Holl§nder in Dresden, Wagner had returned from a deeply unsuccessful two-year stint in Paris. He had gone there to make his fortune, but found his way barred by a strict class-based system. One of the bitterest blows came when L┌on Pillet, director of the Paris Op┌ra, accepted his libretto for Der fliegende Holl§nder - but then commissioned a score not from Wagner but from French composer Pierre-Louis Dietsch. But the Dresden premieres of first Rienzi in October 1842 and Der fliegende Holl§nder in January 1843 were immense successes, and marked the beginning of Wagner's career as one of the greatest operatic composers.
Tim Albery's Olivier-nominated production for The Royal Opera delves deep into the psychology of Wagner's cursed wanderer and his beloved Senta, detailing the monomania and uncompromising idealism that finally drives them apart. Michael Levine's elemental single set is dominated by a rolling metal hull that represents the Dutchman's phantom ship, the poverty of Senta's home and the treacherous sea.