Organization

Conductor

Jordan de Souza

Stage director

Roger Vontobel

Co Director

Maren Schäfer

Set designer

Fabian Wendling

Costume designer

Ellen Hofmann

Choreographer

Zenta Haerter

Video designer

Stefan Bischoff

Lighting designer

Florian Arnholdt

Chorus master

Dani Juris

Dramaturge

Deborah Maier

Marion Tiedtke

Art and mediation

Oliver Riedmüller

Singer

Soprano

Daniela Köhler

Senta

Astrid Kessler

Tenor

Jonathan Stoughton

Eric

Christopher Diffey

Mezzo-soprano

Marie-Belle Sandis

Mary

Jelena Kordić

Joshua Whitener

Daland's Steersman

Juraj Hollý

Bass

Patrick Zielke

Daland

Sung Ha

Bass-baritone

Michael Kupfer-Radecky

The Dutchman

Joachim Goltz

Nationaltheater Mannheim

Others

Chor des Nationaltheaters Mannheim

Orchestra

Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim

National theater choir

German

Der fliegende Holländer -  (The Flying Dutchman)

Mannheim

Germany

Opernhaus

A captain is cursed to sail the seas of the world forever, only allowed to make landfall once every seven years. Will he find the love of a faithful woman to break the curse?

Richard Wagner came across the legend of The Flying Dutchman in 1838 through Heinrich Heine’s From the Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski. After a stormy voyage from Riga to London – Wagner was again on the run from creditors – he chose the material for his next opera and began to compose it, with the unpredictable power of the sea still fresh on his face. Against the backdrop of this wild nature, Wagner exposes  in Holländer his utopia of a love that transcends, offered as an antidote to the 19th century zeitgeist of pounding industrialisation and economic growth. Roger Vontobel’s new production from Mannheim is streamed live on the opening night and audiences around the world can share in some of the most rousing music written in opera.

Streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 24 April 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 24 October 2022: https://operavision.eu/en/library/per...

CAST

Daland: Sung Ha
Senta: Daniela Köhler
Erik: Jonathan Stoughton
Mary: Marie-Belle Sandis
Steersman: Juraj Hollý
The Dutchman: Michael Kupfer-Radecky
Dream Senta: Delphina Parenti
Dream Dutchman: Michael Bronczkowski
Chorus: Opernchor des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Orchestra: Nationaltheater-Orchester

Music: Richard Wagner
Text: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Jordan de Souza
Director: Roger Vontobel
Associate Director: Maren Schäfer
Set Designer: Fabian Wendling
Costume Designer: Ellen Hofmann
Lighting Designer: Florian Arnholdt
Choreographer: Zenta Haerter
Chorus Master: Dani Juris
Dramaturg: Deborah Maier / Marion Tiedtke
Video Director: Stefan Bischoff

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Der fliegende Holländer Wagner,Richard

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The Flying Dutchman

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A curse weighs on the Flying Dutchman: He must sail the seven seas for all eternity without ever finding peace. He is only allowed to go ashore every seven years to look for a woman who will redeem him from his fate through unconditional love. In the dreamy Senta - she too is a restless woman who does not want to fit into a bourgeois world determined by economic interests - he finally finds what he has been looking for for so long: loyalty until death.

Richard Wagner came across the legend of the Flying Dutchman in 1838 through Heinrich Heine's »Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski«. After a stormy voyage from Riga to London – Wagner was once again on the run from creditors – he chose the material for his next opera and began to compose it, still fresh in the face of the unpredictable power of the sea. Against the backdrop of this wild nature, Wagner unfolds the utopia of a love that points to the transcendent in »Dutch« as an alternative to the 19th century zeitgeist characterized by industrialization and economization - and thus finds his way to one of the central themes of his operatic work.

After »Fidelio« and »Il trovatore« in Mannheim, director Roger Vontobel is devoting himself to another milestone in operatic history with »The Flying Dutchman«.

The Flying Dutchman by Wagner, Richard, From (2022/2022), Directed by Roger Vontobel,, Conductor Jordan de Souza, Opernhaus, Mannheim, Germany

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