Der fliegende Holländer - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Der fliegende Holländer
Romantic opera in three acts
Music and Poetry by Richard Wagner
First performance on January 2, 1843 in Dresden
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on May 7th, 2017
recommended from 13 years
approx. 2 hours 15 minutes / no break
In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
The Dutchman is a cursed man, a driven man, an outsider. Richard Wagner got to know the character of this homeless person from Heinrich Heine, who, however, told the romantic story with his typical irony. Wagner, on the other hand, was not interested in Heine's background story, which distanced itself from the Dutch material. Wagner immersed himself in the story of the mysterious seafarer and created his first opera about the man's search for the woman who would redeem him. Holländer, the restless wanderer between life and death, meets a woman - Senta - who also seems alien and homeless and longs for a male character that she has born from her own fantasies: the Dutchman. It is a world of dream images and the fantastic, of obsessions and projections - a world that has long since lost touch with reality. This particularly affects 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 first performed in Dresden in 1843, is, after the preceding RIENZI, which stylistically followed the Grand Opéra, a turning to the tradition of German romantic opera by Weber or Marschner. Despite this orientation to the zeitgeist, the work points to Wagner's further development as a music dramatist. And for the first time, Wagner's life theme of redemption through love in death is at the center.
The director and choreographer Christian Spuck, who already enthralled at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2014 with his production of Hector Berlioz' THE DAMNATION OF FAUS, has worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the second time, again in a team with General Music Director Donald Runnicles.
Subject to change.
Music and Poetry by Richard Wagner
First performance on January 2, 1843 in Dresden
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on May 7th, 2017
recommended from 13 years
approx. 2 hours 15 minutes / no break
In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
The Dutchman is a cursed man, a driven man, an outsider. Richard Wagner got to know the character of this homeless person from Heinrich Heine, who, however, told the romantic story with his typical irony. Wagner, on the other hand, was not interested in Heine's background story, which distanced itself from the Dutch material. Wagner immersed himself in the story of the mysterious seafarer and created his first opera about the man's search for the woman who would redeem him. Holländer, the restless wanderer between life and death, meets a woman - Senta - who also seems alien and homeless and longs for a male character that she has born from her own fantasies: the Dutchman. It is a world of dream images and the fantastic, of obsessions and projections - a world that has long since lost touch with reality. This particularly affects 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 first performed in Dresden in 1843, is, after the preceding RIENZI, which stylistically followed the Grand Opéra, a turning to the tradition of German romantic opera by Weber or Marschner. Despite this orientation to the zeitgeist, the work points to Wagner's further development as a music dramatist. And for the first time, Wagner's life theme of redemption through love in death is at the center.
The director and choreographer Christian Spuck, who already enthralled at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2014 with his production of Hector Berlioz' THE DAMNATION OF FAUS, has worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the second time, again in a team with General Music Director Donald Runnicles.
Subject to change.