Admin

Semperoper Dresden

Conductor

Axel Kober

Stage director

Florentine Klepper

Set designer

Martina Segna

Costume designer

Anna Sofie Tuma

Lighting designer

Bernd Purkrabek

Video

Video (+1)

Bastian Trieb

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+5)

Jan Hoffmann

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+2)

Sophie Becker

Baritone (+4)

Michael Volle

The Dutchman

Soprano (+2)

Jennifer Holloway

Senta

Bass (+5)

Georg Zeppenfeld

Daland

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Christa Mayer

Mary

Tenor

Tomislav Mužek

Eric

Tenor (+3)

Mario Lerchenberger

Daland's Steersman

Chorus

Choir of the Theodore Gouvy Gesellschaft

Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Semperoper

Countless legends tell of the Flying Dutchman, the lonely figure cursed to roam the seas forever, who can only find rest through a woman’s undying love. Senta, destined for a dreary existence as a housewife and mother in her home village, thinks she has been chosen to break the curse. Or does she hope that the stranger can rescue her from the strict confines of her life? Premiered in Dresden in 1843, »The Flying Dutchman« was Richard Wagner’s first romantic opera. In his staging, Florentine Klepper takes Senta’s point of view, telling in magical, dreamlike episodes of the young woman’s emancipation from her father and her fiancé as well as the social conventions that are suffocating her.

German