Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer

Composer: Richard Wagner Artists: Dietrich FischerDieskau (The Dutchman), Gottlob Frick Daland (Norwegian sea captain), Fritz Wunderlich (Dalands steersman), Marianne Schech (Senta, Dalands daughter), Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Franz Konwitschny (conductor) Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): Physical purchase: One of the greatest and most revolutionary composers of the nineteenth century, Richard Wagner transformed the realm of musical drama. Years before his towering successes of the Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, he wrote the now lesserperformed The Flying Dutchman, an opera that marks the beginning of Wagners mature works. The opera premiered in Dresden in 1843 is based on Heinrich Heines telling of the legend in whic