The Flying Dutchman by Wagner, Richard, lø. 01 feb. 2025, Fra (2025/2025), I regi av Vasily Barkhatov, Dirigent Harry Ogg, Axel Kober, Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

The stranger they call the “Flying Dutchman” is different from the men who populate Senta's provincial world: different from the sailor friends of her companions, but above all different from her down-to-earth fiancé Erik, who loves Senta but doesn't is a seafarer. An outsider like her, who is also surrounded by an excitingly dark fate: once, as the stories of her childhood tell us, the Dutchman cursed God; As punishment, he has to cruise the oceans in his ghost ship until a truly loving woman releases him from his curse. Senta feels that she is destined to change the fate of the legendary sailor... Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman", which premiered in 1843, is more than just a maritime horror fairy tale: with the psychological drama of a woman whose longing for love goes beyond the narrow boundaries of society, Here the composer already sets the narrative leitmotifs of later works such as “Tristan and Isolde”, “Parsifal” or “The Ring of the Nibelung”. Director Vasily Barkhatov is one of the shooting stars of his generation. After highly acclaimed work for the opera houses in Hanover, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna, among others, he is now directing for the first time at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.