Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer - DVD

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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (OA1140D)<br /> <br /> Samuel Youn (Der Holländer); Benjamin Bruns (Der Steuermann); Christa Mayer (Mary); Tomislav Muzek (Erik); Ricarda Merbeth (Senta); Franz-Josef Selig (Daland); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Christian Thielemann<br /> <br /> Jan Philipp Gloger’s controversial new production premiered in 2012, to a mixed response. But its revival in 2013 year was greeted (as so often with Bayreuth revivals) with huge acclaim. He translates the tale of the Dutchman, whose travails can only be redeemed through the unconditional love of a women (Senta), to a future time, where part-human/part-cyborgs grind out an existence in a world completely subservient to business and commerce. In the modern fan-making factory, which replaces the world of Senta and her fellow seamstresses, we see a final tableau in which the Dutchman’s and Senta’s heavenly union is ‘commemorated’ by the factory workers now producing souvenir statuettes of the couple. The production is complemented by the distinguished conducting of Christian Thielemann, arguably the great Wagnerian conductor of today.