WAGNER DER FLIEGENDER HOLLANDER

One of the most acclaimed Wagner productions of the postwar period, this electrifying, revolutionary Bayreuth staging of The Flying Dutchman catapulted the German director Harry Kupfer to international fame. Kupfer's psychologically acute production presents the entire story as a hallucination, in which Senta's yearning for the eternally wandering Dutchman sends her into a trance-like state. Senta is sung by Danish soprano Lisbeth Balslev, the American bass-baritone Simon Estes portrays the Dutchman, while the Finnish bass Matti Salminen is Daland. RICHARD WAGNER - DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER (ORCHESTER DER BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE) CHOR DER BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE (Chorus Master: Norbert Balatsch) ORCHESTER DER BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE (Conductor: Woldemar Nelsson) DIRECTED BY HARRY KUPFER ACTORS: MATTI SALMINEN (DALAND), LISBETH BALSLEV (SENTA), ROBERT SCHUNK (ERIK), ANNY SCHLEMM (MARY), GRAHAM CLARK (DER STEUERWIAWN DALANDS), SIMON ESTES (DER HOLLANDER)