Der fliegende Holländer

Opera by Richard Wagner

In the vast expanses of INTERIM beats the dark heart of German Romanticism. The Dutchman wanders aimlessly across the ocean of the global market, amassing abstract riches. The unbridled compulsion to accumulate wealth seems to him a curse that condemns him to eternal restlessness. Only the compensatory counter-model of eternal fidelity promises the Dutchman redemption from the competition, and so he finds his last hope in the bourgeois ideal of love. The businessman Daland entices him with his daughter Senta, who also dreams of unconditional love and is on a desperate search for a higher purpose in life. A deal is a deal in the age of tech billionaires, and so the bargain is quickly struck, even though Senta really doesn’t want to be tied to the spinning wheel right now. And then there’s Erik, who also lays claim to Senta. Caught between different ways of life, Senta’s ideal soon proves to be an empty abstraction …

Many a worldview is shaken when Wagner’s mighty storms of sound sweep through the INTERIM under the musical direction of our new Principal Conductor and Deputy General Music Director, Clemens Fieguth. At the eye of the storm lies Wagner’s lifelong theme: the sacrifice of the individual for the greater ideal. For*The Flying Dutchman*, directors Marlene Pawlak and Florian Lutz transform the INTERIM into a small-town microcosm in which the tribulations of social conditions come to light.

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