Racheengel und Feuerteufel: Der fliegende Holländer in Bayreuth

Elisabeth Teige (Senta)

Nadine Weissmann (Mary)

Thomas J. Mayer (Der Holländer)

Elisabeth Teige (Senta) und Eric Cutler (Erik)

Attilio Glaser (Der Steuermann) und Thomas J. Mayer (Der Holländer)

Eric Cutler (Erik), Elisabeth Teige (Senta) und Nadine Weissmann (Mary)

By Alexandra Richter, 08 August 2022

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“der Zuschauer wird zum Voyeur bröckelnder Familienträume”

Reviewed at Bayreuther Festspielhaus, Bayreuth on 6 August 2022

Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

Oksana Lyniv, Conductor

Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director, Set Designer

Elena Zaytseva, Costume Designer

Gleb Filshtinsky, Lighting Designer

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Tatiana Werestchagina, Dramaturgy

Thomas Johannes Mayer, Dutchman

Elisabeth Teige, Senta

Georg Zeppenfeld, Daland

Eric Cutler, Erik

Nadine Weissmann, Mary

Attilio Glaser, The Steersman

Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster / chorus director

Stikhina and Clayton shine in DNO's uneven Maid of Orleans

Eleanor Knight, 15th November

Director Dmitri Tcherniakov and a talented cast do everything to make Tchaikovsky’s opera work in Amsterdam, but problematic elements persist.

***11

Tcherniakov’s bold reading of Rusalka opens the season in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 20th November

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.

***11

Experiment Rheingold: Tcherniakov’s new Ring at the Staatsoper Berlin

Alexandra Richter, 2nd October

Thielemann and Tcherniakov forge a new Ring at the Berlin Staatsoper and raise great cheer.

****1

Tcherniakov's new Freischütz a brilliant piece of theater in Munich

Ako Imamura, 13th February

Dmitri Tcherniakov updates the "German Romantic Opera" into a modern-day thriller with interesting twists in a musically splendid performance in Munich.

*****

On the plague of eternal life: a new Makropulos Affair in Zurich

Sarah Batschelet, 22nd September

To outwit death and attain immortality is a dream as old as human history. But isn’t it precisely the finite nature of life that makes it so precious?

***11

Listen with Mother: Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie

Mark Pullinger, 16th June

Dmitri Tcherniakov's staging turns Rimsky-Korsakov's opera into storytelling for an autistic boy, but does he deliver a fairy tale ending?

*****

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Alexandra Richter

Alexandra hat Medienwissenschaften studiert und arbeitet als Filmproduzentin in Frankfurt. Tagsüber sind die Kunstausstellungen und Museen ganz Europas ihr zu Hause. Die Abende verbringt sie gern in der Oper und im Konzertsaal. Hier liegen ihre Schwerpunkte bei Romantischen Komponist*innen, wie Schubert und Wagner. Aber auch zeitgenössische und moderne Musik finden immer wieder Beachtung.

Racheengel und Feuerteufel: Der fliegende Holländer der Bayreuther Festspiele