Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera of New York

From April 23 to 14 May, the Met presented under the direction of maestro Kazushi Ono, Wagner’s "Der Fliegende Holländer" (The Flying Dutchman). This opera is one of the early Wagner operas with some Italian style, with arias and duets. The orchestration also despite the leitmotifs and the full orchestra did not have the chromatism and greatness of his late operas.

Senta the dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt was excellent in the role with a vibrato unlike in Wagnerian sopranos, but were can you find a real Wagnerian today?

Bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo as Dutchman sung with a solid and metallic voice. Tenor Stephen Gould as Erik, and bass Hans-Peter König as completed the fine casting. Tenor Philip Webb sung at th

e last presentation the role of Erik. The evocative production was of the August Everding. The set design was by Hans Schavernoch, the costumes by Lore Haas, and the lighting by Gil Wechsler. The stage direction by Stephen Pickover was conventional. Composer Richard Wagner conducted the premiere of Der Fliegende Holländer in 1843 in Dresden. The opera is considered to be the first of Wagner’s fully formed and mature works, drawing on some of his favored themes; the suffering romantic outsider and of redemption through the love of a faithful woman. Der Fliegende Holländer premiered at the Met in 1889, and was most recently revived in 2000.