The Flying Dutchman

Place à l'Opéra lecture series

Highlighting a prestigious bicentennial, Wagner makes a grand return to the Opéra de Montréal! An early masterpiece by a composer who would go on to revolutionize opera. A story of love and death driven by a raging orchestra and voices as powerful as gale force winds!

SYNOPSIS: Senta loves the mysterious captain to whom her father has promised her hand in marriage. She doesn’t realize that he is a ghost: the sinister “Flying Dutchman,” condemned to roam the sea for all eternity, until he finds a woman who is willing to love him…

Speakers: Pierre Vachon, Opera de Montreal Robert Markow, musician and musical critic Jürgen Heizmann, German Literature professor, Universite de Montreal