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Music:Richard Wagner Lyrics:Richard Wagner after a episod in Heines "Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski"
Libretto in the German language
Premiere at Hofoper in Dresden at 2 januari 1843.
| Role | Voicetype |
|---|---|
| The Flying Dutchman | baritone | Daland,norwegian seaman | bass | Senta,his daughter | soprano | 1:e mate | tenor | Erik,a hunter | tenor | Mary,Sentas nurse | mezzosoprano |
The Norwegian coast, the eighteenth century.
Daland´s ship is forced by bad weather to take shelter in a cove seven miles from home. He curses the storm for keeping him from his daughter Senta. Through the storm appears the blood-red sail of the Flying Dutchman´s ship. The Dutchman has been condemned to travel the seas until the Day of Judgment, unless he can achieve salvation through the love of a woman - he is allowed onto land once every seven years to seek such a woman. The Dutchman offers Daland enormous wealth in return for shelter and the chance to woo Senta. Daland agrees.
In Daland´s house, surrounded by the village women at their spinning wheels, Senta sings the ballad of the Flying Dutchman, in which she considers herself as the source of his salvation. The hunter Erik announces Daland´s return and begs Senta to persuade her father that he is a worthy suitor.He tells her of his dream in which, confronted by two men - one Daland, the other a dark and mysterious stranger - Senta throws herself towards the latter. The door opens and in walk Daland and the stranger of Erik´s dream. The Dutchman and Senta are immediately smitten, and although he warns her of the sacrifies she will have to make if she takes as her husband, she is adamant that she is the right woman.
Daland´s ship is anchored alongside the Dutchman´s, from which there is no response until a storm flares up around it, whereupon the Dutchman´s crew sing of their fate - Satan has cursed them to sail the seas for eternity. Daland´s crew flee in horror. Erik, appalled to hear of Senta´s decision to marry the Dutchman, confronts her, reminding her of their embraces. The Dutchman overhears and assumes that she has been unfaithful. She fails to convince him otherwi9se and, as he leaves, he reveals his true identity. Desolate, Senta hurls herself into the sea. The doomed sailor is redeemed by her sacrifice, and the opera ends with the Dutchman and Senta heaven-bound.
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