“Gaffigan, making a commendable company debut, urged the orchestra forward from the score’s opening pages. Yet Gaffigan never slighted Bizet’s tender episodes, such as the lovely Entr’acte preceding Act III”
-OPERA NEWS

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Matthew Polenzani as Don José and J'Nai Bridges in the title role of Bizet's Carmen at San Francisco Opera Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

“conductor James Gaffigan, making a commendable company debut, urged the orchestra forward from the score’s opening pages. Yet Gaffigan never slighted Bizet’s tender episodes, such as the lovely Entr’acte preceding Act III, gracefully played by principal flutist Julie McKenzie”
-OPERA NEWS, full review here.

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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

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Chorus master Francesc Perales

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

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(Sunday) 7:30 pm

Location

Sala Principal del Palau de les Arts

Av. del Professor López Piñero, 1, 46013 València, Valencia, Spain

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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

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

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(Wednesday) 7:30 pm

Location

Sala Principal del Palau de les Arts

Av. del Professor López Piñero, 1, 46013 València, Valencia, Spain

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“Gaffigan, making a commendable company debut, urged the orchestra forward from the score’s opening pages. Yet Gaffigan never slighted Bizet’s tender episodes, such as the lovely Entr’acte preceding Act III”
-OPERA NEWS

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

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Previous Post"Leading the orchestra with a sure and energetic hand, he coaxes the loveliest of sounds and maintains thrust throughout the performance."
-Bay Area Reporter