Fleeing One and Bureaucrat: Robert Hayward as The Dutchman and Clive Bayley as Daland in Opera North’s production of The Flying Dutchman The production as a whole, however, and the contributions of ...

Stormy weather and an enthusiastic audience mark Julia Burbach’s The Flying Dutchman as it proves a smashing success to open the 2025 season of Opera Holland Park. This is the first time Opera Holland ...

Jack Furness’s unconventional staging for Welsh National Opera sees the orchestra play up a storm under Tomáš Hanus in Wagner’s legend of the man condemned to sail the oceans for eternity The Guardian ...

Arizona Opera is moving its orchestra out of the pit and onto the stage for this weekend’s performance of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman.” The production might be the most stripped-down in the ...

Opera Roanoke's return to fully staged opera gets ever more ambitious. On Sept. 21 and 23 the company will tackle the staging of a Richard Wagner opera for the first time, with a production of the ...

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For a small opera company like Opera Roanoke, staging one of German composer Richard Wagner's epics might seem like a tall order.

One of the city's most innovative arts companies enters a new phase Friday, Nov. 25, with The Black Pirate vs. The Flying Dutchman, its first show under new artistic director Erica Melton, who's been ...

Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman is an eerie tale of redemption through love, set in the fearsome world of a ghost sea captain. To close out the symphonic season, the FWSO has assembled an all-star ...

Piedmont Opera’s first production of a Wagnerian opera in its 36-year history is an unmitigated artistic success, and, to judge by the opening-night audience’s response, a popular success as well.

Any company planning a Richard Wagner staging would be well advised to proceed with caution; they’re among the biggest challenges in the repertoire. Opera Holland Park has indeed adopted a cautious ...

That said, Naomi Dawson’s set avoids any barnacled naturalism. Ropes, ladders and trapdoors hint at shipboard scenes rather than mimic them, while Robert Price’s effective mood-creating lighting does ...