Organization

Singer

Bass-baritone

Michael Kupfer-Radecky

The Dutchman

Bass

Patrick Zielke

Daland

Sung Ha

Soprano

Daniela Köhler

Senta

Tenor

Jonathan Stoughton

Eric

Christopher Diffey

Mezzo-soprano

Marie-Belle Sandis

Mary

Joshua Whitener

Daland's Steersman

Juraj Hollý

Stage director

Roger Vontobel

Conductor

Alexander Soddy

Costume designer

Ellen Hofmann

Set designer

Fabian Wendling

Choreographer

Zenta Haerter

Dramaturge

Deborah Maier

Marion Tiedtke

Chorus master

Dani Juris

Video designer

Stefan Bischoff

Nationaltheater Mannheim

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Chor des Nationaltheaters Mannheim

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Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim

Opernchor der Nationaltheater

Der fliegende Holländer -  (The Flying Dutchman)

Mannheim

Germany

Opernhaus

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The Flying Dutchman

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A curse weighs on the Flying Dutchman: he has to sail the oceans for all eternity without ever finding rest. He is only allowed to go ashore every seven years to look for a woman who will redeem him from his fate through unconditional love. In the dreamy Senta - she, too, a restless person who does not want to fit into a bourgeois world determined by economic interests - he finally finds what he has been looking for for so long: loyalty until death.

Richard Wagner discovered the legend of the Flying Dutchman in 1838 through Heinrich Heine's "Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski". After a stormy crossing from Riga to London - Wagner was once again on the run from creditors - he chose the material for his next opera and began the composition under the still fresh impression of the unpredictable power of the sea. Against the backdrop of this wild nature, Wagner unfolds in "Holländer" the utopia of a love pointing into the transcendent as an alternative to the industrialization and economization of the 19th century - and thus finds one of the central themes of his operatic work.

With “The Flying Dutchman” director Roger Vontobel is dedicating himself to another milestone in opera history after “Fidelio” and “Il trovatore” in Mannheim.

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