Richard Wagner: DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER
Musical Direction: Asher FischDirection and Lighting: Josef E. Köpplinger
Stage: Rainer Sinell
Costumes: Birte Wallbaum
Daland: Gabor Bretz
Senta: Sinéad Campbell Wallace
Erik: Jamez McCorkle
Mary: Shannon Keegan
Helmsman: Matthew Newlin
Dutchman: Christopher Maltman
Orchester und Chor der Tiroler Festspiele Erl
The man wandering in his entanglements, yearning for redemption, is a recurring motif in Wagner's operas. In the Holländer the composer's self-image seems particularly clearly reflected in an operatic figure. A captain condemned to eternal life is stranded on Norway's coast, meets Senta, who redeems him through her suicide. At that time, the young Kapellmeister Wagner's wife was unfaithful, so he composed for himself, as a reaction to the storms in his own life, the icon of unconditional love.