Opera North has got it right. At this time of acute uncertainty for the UK’s opera companies, it welcomes its audiences both old and new with confidence. The company has struck a fine balance between ...

Fleeing One and Bureaucrat: Robert Hayward as The Dutchman and Clive Bayley as Daland in Opera North’s production of The Flying Dutchman The production as a whole, however, and the contributions of ...

That said, Naomi Dawson’s set avoids any barnacled naturalism. Ropes, ladders and trapdoors hint at shipboard scenes rather than mimic them, while Robert Price’s effective mood-creating lighting does ...

Cathalena E. Burch Nov 21, 2013 Nov 21, 2013 Updated Jul 1, 2014 Arizona Opera is moving its orchestra out of the pit and onto the stage for this weekend’s performance of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman ...

But while pulling off "The Flying Dutchman" will be historic for Opera Roanoke, Williamson is cautious when discussing the opera's future fortunes. The Taubman Foundation Sustainability Grant program ...

One of the city's most innovative arts companies enters a new phase Friday, Nov. 25, with The Black Pirate vs. The Flying Dutchman, its first show under new artistic director Erica Melton, who's been ...

Des Moines Metro Opera has revealed updated casting for the company's 2025 Festival Season. The season runs June 27 through July 20 and features the return of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, a ...

Opera Roanoke's return to fully staged opera gets ever more ambitious. On Sept. 21 and 23 the company will tackle the staging of a Richard Wagner opera for the first time, with a production of the ...

That storyline, so full of possibilities, has threaded through fictional works of all kinds for centuries. In Wagner’s opera “Der Fliegende Holländer” (“The Flying Dutchman”), the stranger is a ...

Jun. 22—The Santa Fe Opera's 2023 season features a bouquet of new productions of classic operas spiced with a 2024 world premiere. Puccini's "Tosca" and Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" will open the ...