Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner.The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden in 1
He also sang the Germanic operatic repertoire, including Florestan in Fidelio and Eric in The Flying Dutchman. During the 1970s, Smith and his son Robin Donald, also a tenor, made operatic history together, alternating singing the role of Eric in The Flying Dutchman, in performance with the Australian Opera Company (now Opera Australia). Robin ...
In summer 2010, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as helmsman in The Flying Dutchman. [5] For Bruns, oratorios and lieder form an important counterpart to his stage work. At the core of his extensive concert repertoire are the great sacred works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
He made his Bayreuth debut as the Steersman in The Flying Dutchman in 1956. [3] He subsequently sang the heavier roles there in many seasons from 1967 until 1984, mainly Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. His international career extended mostly to Europe. He made his Covent Garden debut in October 1975, singing the title role in ...
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever.The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [1] [2] [3] and of Dutch maritime power.
Glenn Winslade (born 1958) is an Australian operatic tenor known for his interpretations of dramatic roles such as Florestan in Fidelio, the title role in Idomeneo, the title role in La clemenza di Tito, Erik in The Flying Dutchman, the title role in Rienzi, the title role in Lohengrin, the title role in Tannhäuser, the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Apollo in Daphne, Bacchus in Ariadne ...
Hermann Winkler (3 March 1924 – 21 January 2009) was a German operatic tenor. Life Born ... In 1975 he took part in the film The Flying Dutchman (Erik). His ...
Further invitations followed for 2005 and 2006 again as 3rd Squire and helmsman in The Flying Dutchman and in 2007 as David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Sebastian Weigle conducting, under whom he also made his debut as helmsman at the Liceu in Barcelona in 2007. [4]