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Richard Wagner in April

Der fliegende Holländer

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

21
Monday
April
16:00 - 18:15
D prices: € 144.00 / 112.00 / 82.00 / 50.00 / 30.00
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Information about the work

Romantic opera in three acts Music and text by Richard Wagner
World premiere: 2nd January 1843 in Dresden
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin: 7th May 2017

approx. 2 hrs 15 mins / no interval

In German language with German and English surtitles

Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance

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21
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About the work
The Dutchman is a cursed man, an outsider, a driven individual. Richard Wagner came upon the character of the famous drifter via Heinrich Heine, who lent the Romantic material his typically ironic touch. Wagner’s interest was tweaked not by Heine’s packaging of the story, which relegated the Dutchman-based action to the margins, but by the tale of the enigmatic mariner, which led to him writing his first opera about the man’s quest for a woman who could offer him redemption. The Dutchman, restlessly plying the borderlands between life and death, encounters Senta, who appears equally ill-at-ease and rootless and yearns for a masculine character, the Dutchman, a figment of her imagination.

Written in 1841 and performed for the first time in Dresden in 1843, Wagner’s opera, following on the heels of RIENZI, a work in the grand opéra tradition, harks back to the German idea of Romantic opera as exemplified by Weber or Marschner. THE FLYING DUTSCHMAN also marks the beginning of a new and characteristically Wagnerian style, a new form of musical drama. This is the first of many works by Wagner to place the theme of redemption through love in death at the core of the piece.

About the production
Director and choreographer Christian Spuck, artistic director of the Staatsballett Berlin since 2023, has given us a realm of dream images and fantastical visions, of obsession and projection – a world that has lost touch with reality. Most affected by this is Erik, the huntsman, who seems to be the only figure capable of true love. But he can no longer get through to a Senta who is wrapped up in her dreams. Erik is in the nightmarish situation of watching Senta increasingly cut herself off from him until she eventually commits suicide.

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23
DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 23. Fensterchen

This CD of Massenet's HÉRODIADE has only been on sale since 22 November 2024, making it our very latest, brand-new release, which we are delighted to be giving away in our Advent calendar today. If you would like to be among the winners of one of the two CD boxes, please send an e-mail with the subject ‘The 23rd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Few female figures have inspired the art of the late 19th century as enduringly as the Judean princess Salome, who according to legend was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. In France in particular, writers, painters and composers were fascinated by this subject matter and its blend of Orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Jules Massenet also took up the subject: however, at the centre of his HÉRODIADE, first performed in Brussels in 1881, is not, as it was a quarter of a century later in Richard Strauss's work, the royal child-woman Salome, but her mother Hérodias, the wife of King Herod. And while Strauss's opera was to become the first major success of the 20th century, Massenet's is a celebration of the grand opera of the 19th century, with pathos, posturing and a Hollywood-style script. With a queen who, out of jealousy, causes the death of her own daughter, a mysterious star diviner, a prophet who is not immune to the feelings of love, a weak-willed ruler and a heroically loving princess, Massenet offers a multitude of striking operatic figures and gives the plot a dazzling ‘colour locale’ by incorporating Hebrew and oriental motifs.

For the concert performance by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the great French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine returned to the house where she celebrated successes as Carmen, Marguerite in LA DAMNATION DE FAUST and, most recently, as Fidès in LE PROPHÈTE. The performances of HÉRODIADE on 15 and 18 June 2023 were recorded.

On this CD, conducted by our First Permanent Guest Conductor Enrique Mazzola, you can hear Etienne Dupuis (Hérode), Clémentine Margaine (Hérodiade), Nicole Car (Salomé), Matthew Polenzani (Jean), Marko Mimica (Ph anuel), Dean Murphy (Vitellius), Kyle Miller (High Priest), Sua Jo (A Young Babylonian), Thomas Cilluffo (Voice from the Temple), the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and our chorus under the direction of Jeremy Bines.



Closing date: 23 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 27 December 2024. The CDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.