The legend of a ship's captain who is condemned to sail forever: It was his stormy voyage to London in 1839 (escaping his creditors), that set Wagner’s thoughts on the operatic possibilities of "The ...

The production team of the new staging of "The Flying Dutchman" that opened this year's Bayreuth Festival was loudly booed at the opening night, while the cast received rapturous applause. The ...

BERLIN (AP) — A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" when the Bayreuth opera festival opens next week withdrew from the event Saturday after it ...

THE South Korean bass-baritone Samuel Youn will sing the title role in The Flying Dutchman at the Bayreuth Festival after Yevgeny Nikitin withdrew because of Nazi symbols he had tattooed on his chest ...

Director Roger Hodgman brilliantly enhances Wagner’s first classic by introducing 21st century, 3D-digital projection wizardry (Deakin Motion. Lab) akin to that seen in movie blockbusters. The Flying ...

The legend of a ship's captain who is condemned to sail forever. It was his stormy voyage to London in 1839 (escaping his creditors), that set Wagner’s thoughts on the operatic possibilities of "The ...