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Darmstadt's Flying Dutchman was a gripping Romantic ghost story with a stong Senta in Astrid Weber. 

The city of Darmstadt is blessed with a theatre that sustains a wide-ranging repertoire of first-class drama, opera and concerts, and the cross-fertilisation of music and theatre was apparent this evening: the concert commenced with a moment of splendid theatricality.

Die Premiere von Tschaikowskys Oper wurde zwar am Libretto vorbei inszeniert, bot aber musikalisch dafür umso Hochkarätigeres.