Doomed Dutchman wants a wife: Wagner makes Opera Holland Park debut

The Flying Dutchman

Eleanor Dennis (Senta), Paul Carey Jones (The Dutchman) and the OHP Chorus

Eleanor Dennis (Senta)

Paul Carey Jones (The Dutchman)

By Eleanor Knight, 28 May 2025

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“a genuinely thrilling gothic atmosphere”

Reviewed at Holland Park Theatre, London on 27 May 2025

Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

Opera Holland Park

Peter Selwyn, Conductor

Julia Burbach, Director

Naomi Dawson, Set Designer

Sussie Juhlin-Wallén, Costume Designer

Robert Price, Lighting Designer

City of London Sinfonia

Opera Holland Park Chorus

Paul Carey Jones, Dutchman

Eleanor Dennis, Senta

Robert Winslade Anderson, Daland

Neal Cooper, Erik

Angharad Lyddon, Mary

Colin Judson, The Steersman

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.