| Saturday 23 January 2027 | 19:00 |
| Saturday 30 January 2027 | 19:00 |
| Saturday 06 February 2027 | 19:00 |
| Friday 12 February 2027 | 19:00 |
| Friday 19 February 2027 | 19:00 |
| Wednesday 24 February 2027 | 19:00 |
| Saturday 27 February 2027 | 19:00 |
| Staatsoper Stuttgart | ||
| Nicholas Carter | Conductor | |
| Calixto Bieito | Director | |
| Susanne Gschwender | Set Designer | |
| Anna Eiermann | Costume Designer | |
| Reinhard Traub | Lighting Designer | |
| Staatsorchester Stuttgart | ||
| Rebecca Ringst | Set Designer | |
| Xavier Zuber | Dramaturgy | |
| Staatsopernchor Stuttgart | ||
| Jeremy Bines | Choirmaster / chorus director | |
| Goran Jurić | Bass | Daland |
| Simone Schneider | Soprano | Senta |
| Derek Welton | Bass | Dutchman |
| Manni Laudenbach | Actor | Erik |
| Deanna Ray Eberhart von Fange | Mezzo-soprano | Mary |
| Moritz Kallenberg | Tenor | The Steersman |
“Dear God, make me pious / for I come from hell,“ reads a scene heading in Heiner Müller’s grotesque fairy tale The Life of Gundling Friedrich of Prussia. But it could just as easily refer to the Flying Dutchman, who in Wagner’s early opera was condemned by Satan himself to sail restlessly across the world’s oceans. Every seven years he is allowed ashore to woo a woman who will remain faithful to him until death.
From the hell of eternal recurrence, his path leads him into the icy waters of selfish calculation, where a person is worth only as much as they contribute. The title role in Calixto Bieito’s dark interpretation of Wagner is played by Derek Welton, an internationally acclaimed bass-baritone from Australia. Nicholas Carter conducts the Staatsorchester in his third production of the season.
In German
An introduction will take place in the first-tier foyer 45 minutes before the performance begins.
