DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER
Richard Wagner 1813-1883

A Romantic Opera in three acts
Libretto by Richard Wagner inspired
by The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski , by Heinrich Heine

James Gaffigan conducts his second Wagner opera after an “intense” version of Tristan und Isolde that demonstrated his “passionate mastery of the score”. This production features a cast of seasoned Wagnerian voices, led by the young American bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee as the Dutchman, a role he is performing for the first time in Europe. His incarnations of Wotan, Donner, Amfortas and Hans Sachs in Leipzig, Munich, Frankfurt and the Bayreuth Festival testify to his meteoric Wagnerian career. Elisabet Strid is one of the most sought-after Sentas in opera houses around the world (she recently sang the role for 60 performances in Covent Garden). The rest of the cast includes bass Franz-Josef Selig (Daland) and tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Erik). Willy Decker, well-known for his outstanding productions of La traviata and Peter Grimes, sets the curse of the Dutchman in a simple but enormous stage design dominated by gigantic, practically empty rooms, with a masterly interplay of light and shadow that accentuates the psychological aspect of the drama.

Creative Team

Conductor: James Gaffigan
Stage director: Willy Decker
Set and Costume designer: Wolfgang Gussmann
Lighting designer: Hans Tölstede

Cast

Der Holländer: Nicholas Brownlee
Senta: Elisabet Strid
Daland: Franz-Josef Selig
Erik: Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Steuermann: Moisés Marín
Mary: Eva Kroon

Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Chorus master Francesc Perales

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana