The Metropolitan Opera The Flying Dutchman (2020)

François Girard whose revelatory 2013 take on Parsifal set the recent Met standard for Wagner stagings now unveils a spellbinding new vision of the composers tale of a cursed sea captain doomed to sail the open ocean for eternity With sweeping sets by John Macfarlane Girards new production turns the Met stage into a rich layered tableau reminiscent of a vast oil painting Valery Gergiev conducts a brilliant cast led by bassbaritone Evgeny Nikitin as the Dutchman with German soprano Anja Kampe making her anticipated Met debut as the devoted Senta whose selfless love is what the Dutchman seeks Bass FranzJosef Selig is her father Daland and tenor Sergey Skorokhodov is her deserted former lover Erik This live cinema transmission is part of the Mets awardwinning Live in HD series bringing opera to more than 2200 theaters in more than 70 countries worldwide