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Amid the rough winds of late May, Julia Burbach directs Opera Holland Park's first venture into Wagner – The Flying Dutchman.
1. The Bannockburn: The Flying Dutchman of Lake Superior One of the most famous ghost ships on the Great Lakes is the Bannockburn, a Canadian grain freighter that disappeared on Lake Superior in ...
Jonathan Kaufman, shown in a recent dress rehearsal, plays the Helmsman in Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's semi-staged production of "The Flying Dutchman" at Bass Performance Hall.
The Flying Dutchman, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin, ★★★★☆ Since the inception of the exceptionally productive outfit that is the Irish National Opera, Irish audiences have feasted on ...
The highly charged orchestral overture plays against the backdrop of a huge painting of a 19th-century masted sailing ship on heavy seas. The painting vividly comes to life thanks to clever animation.
"The Flying Dutchman" was first staged in 1843 at the Königliches Hoftheater in Dresden, Germany. The opera tells the following story: "The Flying Dutchman is a captain cursed to sail the seas with ...
Review: The Flying Dutchman, Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre, Saturday, February 1st, 2025 Der fliegende Hollande - the Flying Dutchman - is sung in German with English surtitles. Wagner based his ...
This Dutchman Flies High It took me until I was in my 30s to brave a Wagner opera. Not The Flying Dutchman but Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg. Why? well, partly because many Wagner operas are ...
By the end of the 250th century, all sailors sailing the seas and oceans were terrified of the "Flying Dutchman", a ghost ship that invariably warned of imminent disaster. Condemned to sail forever, ...
A name that can strike fear in a sailor’s heart, the Flying Dutchman puts the ‘ghost’ in ‘ghost ship’. Unlike the real vessels on this list, this ship is based on myth and legend: a ghoulish warship ...