Der fliegende Holländer

The Flying Dutchman is doomed to sail the seas forever. In order to win the love of a woman who is faithful to the death and thus escape his curse, he returns to land every seven years. But his hope is fading, he wishes for death. That's when he meets Daland and his crew, who, after seeing the Dutchman's treasures, offers him his daughter Senta as a wife.Herbert Fritsch's second production at the Komische Oper Berlin after Mozart's Don Giovanni brings Wagner's monumental and mysterious - often very darkly staged - Dutchman back into the children's room "(...) and proves in a virtuoso way that one can have a brilliant time doing it and still take the opera seriously, or precisely for that reason." [SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG]