Sunday 30 April 2023 | 19:00 |
Prague National Theatre Opera | ||
Richard Hein | Conductor | |
Ole Anders Tandberg | Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer | |
Maria Geber | Costume Designer | |
Prague State Opera Orchestra | ||
Prague State Opera Chorus | ||
Martin Černý | Set Designer | |
Åsa Frankenberg | Lighting Designer | |
Jitka Slavíková | Dramaturgy | |
Joachim Goltz | Baritone | Dutchman |
Alexander Krasnov | Baritone | Dutchman |
Elisabeth Teige | Soprano | Senta |
Dorothea Herbert | Soprano | Senta |
Zdeněk Plech | Bass | Daland |
Michal Lehotský | Tenor | Erik |
Aleš Briscein | Tenor | Erik |
Jana Sýkorová | Mezzo-soprano | Mary |
Daniel Matoušek | Tenor | The Steersman |
Prague State Opera | ||
Adolf Melichar | Choirmaster / chorus director |
Der fliegende Holländer links up to the tradition of Carl Maria von Weber’s and Heinrich Marschner’s German Romantic operas. Yet even though still adhering to the conventional structure of self-contained numbers with recitatives and arias, in this work Wagner set out on the path towards the style that would characterise his later creations, through-composed music dramas with leitmotivs, associated with specific characters and themes. An important role in the opera is played by a dream: Senta lives in another world, different to that inhabited by the people around her; she yearns for the mysterious Dutchman, a figment of her imagination and a phantom she deems real. Wagner thus afforded theatre-makers tremendous scope for presenting the often very narrow borders between reality and dream, or sanity and insanity.