Der fliegende Holländer

The sailor's daughter Senta takes pity on the centuries-old legendary figure of the Flying Dutchman.

He was condemned by Satan to sail the world's oceans until a woman frees him from this curse through her loyalty. One day, when Senta's father returns home from a long voyage with a mysterious man, Senta is the only one who recognizes the Flying Dutchman in the sinister foreign captain. At the cost of self-destruction, she decides to redeem him.

Synopsis:

A storm has caused the sailor Daland's ship to drift into a bay shortly before his return home.

The helmsman on watch falls asleep. Suddenly, a large ship approaches and drops anchor with a crash. Its captain, the Flying Dutchman, is cursed to sail the seas forever. But he is allowed to go ashore every seven years to find a woman who will redeem him through her loyalty.

The Dutchman meets Daland and learns that he has a daughter, Senta. He asks Daland for hospitality and Senta's hand in marriage. In Daland's house, the women await the returning sailors. Senta sings a ballad about the fate of the Flying Dutchman, who once swore to sail off an impregnable cape until he had sailed around it, even if it meant forever. Satan cursed him to do so.

Senta wants to be the woman who releases him from this curse. The hunter Erik, who fears losing Senta's love, wants to dissuade her from her fantastic preoccupation with the Flying Dutchman.

Daland arrives with the Dutchman. As if in a dream, Senta and the Dutchman realize that they belong together - the Dutchman demands and Senta promises eternal fidelity. Daland's sailors celebrate their return home and the women prepare for the engagement. The sailors invite the crew on the Flying Dutchman's ship to celebrate, but they don't move. Suddenly the sea rises, and the dead men let out a terrifying song.

Erik wants to keep Senta from her union with the Flying Dutchman and reminds her of an earlier promise of fidelity. The Dutchman hears this and believes he has been betrayed by Senta. He releases her to save her from death. He flees to his ship.

Senta throws herself into the sea to save him. The ship sinks.

program

Der fliegende Holländer
Oper von Richard Wagner

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