Stormy weather and an enthusiastic audience mark Julia Burbach’s The Flying Dutchman as it proves a smashing success to open the 2025 season of Opera Holland Park. This is the first time Opera Holland ...
Welsh National Opera will bring 80th Anniversary Season to Milton Keynes Theatre, including The Flying Dutchman and  Blaze of ...
It took me until I was in my 30s to brave a Wagner opera. Not The Flying Dutchman but Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg. Why? well, partly because many Wagner operas are long – but mostly because I’d ...
That said, Naomi Dawson’s set avoids any barnacled naturalism. Ropes, ladders and trapdoors hint at shipboard scenes rather than mimic them, while Robert Price’s effective mood-creating lighting does ...