Opera Colorado's production of "The Flying Dutchman" was created from the ground up in about 2 years. The organization wanted to put a new spin on an old classic. In Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying ...

Few mariners would deny the possibility of Sisyphean ghost ships, forever sailing through tempest and tumult. Richard Wagner’s fantastical 1843 opera “The Flying Dutchman” finds drama in the ...

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Tim Albery’s production of Wagner’s beloved The Flying Dutchman returns to the Royal Opera House for its fourth revival in a stunning performance that once again features Sir Bryn Terfel in the title ...

Opera North has got it right. At this time of acute uncertainty for the UK’s opera companies, it welcomes its audiences both old and new with confidence. The company has struck a fine balance between ...

Thomas Guggeis, the young German conductor making his Met debut, is Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Berlin and the designated Generalmusikdirektor of the Oper Frankfurt; pretty impressive for one who ...

Fleeing One and Bureaucrat: Robert Hayward as The Dutchman and Clive Bayley as Daland in Opera North’s production of The Flying Dutchman The production as a whole, however, and the contributions of ...

That storyline, so full of possibilities, has threaded through fictional works of all kinds for centuries. In Wagner’s opera “Der Fliegende Holländer” (“The Flying Dutchman”), the stranger is a ...

Regional opera companies always take a pause before they produce operas by Richard Wagner. The German composer has a big reputation for grand titles that unfold at a snail’s pace. Wagner’s famous ...

That said, Naomi Dawson’s set avoids any barnacled naturalism. Ropes, ladders and trapdoors hint at shipboard scenes rather than mimic them, while Robert Price’s effective mood-creating lighting does ...

For the first time in two decades, out side producers have been making their mark on the Festspielhaus, the Wagner family’s private preserve in the 12th century town of Bayreuth. Richard Wag ner ...