Der Fliegende Höllander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner, one of the emblematic masterpieces of Romantic opera, comes to the Teatro Real. In this production by La Fura dels Baus, the conflict between good and bad, light and darkness, is but a reflection of a tormented and imprisoned soul whose free spirit has been appropriated.
The Dutchman is damned, condemned to sail forever, yet his utmost desire is to be released from the inferno of his doomed vessel and return to a life on land. The story has an intense mirrorlike quality in its score, it has all the ingredients of what was to come with Wagner's mature artistry.
Romantische Oper in three acts
Music and libretto by Richard Wagner, after the work Aus den Memorien des Herren Schnabelewopski by Heinrich Heine
Premiered at the Hofoper Dresde on January 2, 1843
Production of the Opéra National de Lyon, in coproduction with the Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Opera Australia and the Opéra de Lille
Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Artistic team
Conductor | Pablo Heras-Casado
Stage director | Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus)
Set designer | Alfons Flores
Costumes designer | Josep Abril
Lighting designer | Urs Schönebaum
Video | Franc Andreu
Chorus master | Andrés Máspero
Assistant to the conductor | Tilman Wildt
Assistants to the stage director | Sandra Pocceschi y Tine Buyse
Movement collaborator | Ferran Carvajal
Diction supervisor | Rochsane Taghikhani
Cast
Daland | Kwangchul Youn
Senta | Ingela Brimberg
Erik | Nikolai Schukoff
Mary | Kai Rüütel
Daland's steersman | Benjamin Bruns
The Dutchman | Evgeny Nikitin
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