Der Fliegende Holländer

Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer opera to a libretto by the composer. Directed 2013 by Andreas Homoki at the Zurich Opera House. Stars Bryn Terfel (Der Holländer), Matti Salminen (Daland), Anja Kampe (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Liliana Nikiteanu (Mary), Fabio Trümpy (Dalands Steuermann), and Nelson Egede (Dalands Diener). Alain Altinoglu conducts the Philharmonia Zürich and the Chor def Oper Zürich (Chorus Master Jürg Hämmerli). Set design by Wolfgang Gussmann; costume design by Wolfgang Gussmann and Susana Mendoza; lighting design by Franck Evin; dramaturgy by Werner Hintze. Directed for TV by Nele Münchmeyer. Sung in German. Released 2015, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.