Der fliegende Holländer - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Der fliegende Holländer
Romantic opera in three lifts
Music and poetry by Richard Wagner
World premiere on 2 January 1843 in Dresden
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on May 7, 2017
In German with German and English surtitles
about 2 hours 15 minutes / no break
The Dutchman is a cursed, a driven, an outsider. The character of this homeless man met Richard Wagner in Heinrich Heine, who told the romantic fabric but with the typical irony. Wagner, on the other hand, was not interested in Heine's story, which distanced the Dutchman's fabric. Wagner immersed himself in the story of the mysterious navigator and created his first opera about the man's search for the woman who saved him. Dutchman, the restless wanderer between life and death, meets a woman - Senta - who also seems strange and homeless and longs for a male figure who has given birth to her own fantasies: the Dutchman. It is a world of dream images and of the fantastic, the obsessions and the projections - a world that has long since lost touch with reality. This is especially true of the hunter Erik, who appears as perhaps the only true and real lover. But he no longer reaches the others who dissolve in their dreams. Wagner's opera, written in 1841 and premiered in Dresden in 1843, is after the preceding RIENZI, which stylistically followed the Grand Opéra, a turn to the tradition of the German romantic opera by Weber or Marschner. Despite this orientation towards the zeitgeist, the work anticipates Wagner's further development as a music dramatist. And for the first time Wagner's life's theme of salvation through love stands in the center.
The director and choreographer Christian Spuck, who was already enthusiastic about the production of Hector Berlioz 'FAUSTS VERDAMMNIS at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2014, has already worked for the second time at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, again in a team with General Music Director Donald Runnicles.
Subject may change.
Music and poetry by Richard Wagner
World premiere on 2 January 1843 in Dresden
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on May 7, 2017
In German with German and English surtitles
about 2 hours 15 minutes / no break
The Dutchman is a cursed, a driven, an outsider. The character of this homeless man met Richard Wagner in Heinrich Heine, who told the romantic fabric but with the typical irony. Wagner, on the other hand, was not interested in Heine's story, which distanced the Dutchman's fabric. Wagner immersed himself in the story of the mysterious navigator and created his first opera about the man's search for the woman who saved him. Dutchman, the restless wanderer between life and death, meets a woman - Senta - who also seems strange and homeless and longs for a male figure who has given birth to her own fantasies: the Dutchman. It is a world of dream images and of the fantastic, the obsessions and the projections - a world that has long since lost touch with reality. This is especially true of the hunter Erik, who appears as perhaps the only true and real lover. But he no longer reaches the others who dissolve in their dreams. Wagner's opera, written in 1841 and premiered in Dresden in 1843, is after the preceding RIENZI, which stylistically followed the Grand Opéra, a turn to the tradition of the German romantic opera by Weber or Marschner. Despite this orientation towards the zeitgeist, the work anticipates Wagner's further development as a music dramatist. And for the first time Wagner's life's theme of salvation through love stands in the center.
The director and choreographer Christian Spuck, who was already enthusiastic about the production of Hector Berlioz 'FAUSTS VERDAMMNIS at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2014, has already worked for the second time at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, again in a team with General Music Director Donald Runnicles.
Subject may change.
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