New production of Wagner opera to tour England
OperaUpClose are partnering with recent RPS Award-winning ensemble Manchester Camerata to bring Wagner’s maritime opera The Flying Dutchman to audiences in unconventional performance venues at waterside locations.
They’ll reinvigorate Wagner’s classic with an English libretto by poet and novelist Glyn Maxwell and an 8-piece chamber orchestration by Laura Bowler.
The Flying Dutchman is a haunting political tale exploring the displacement of people and the psychology and realities of living on an island with hardening borders, bringing an urgent and contemporary relevance to the fable of the ship’s captain cursed to roam the sea forever.
The production steers from traditional ‘end-on’ performance, breaking the fourth wall and immersing the audience directly in the world of the story. It dismantles the traditional barriers between pit, stage and orchestra with all performers, instrumentalists and singers, having equal agency as storytellers.
It includes pre-recorded voices from a national network of community choirs, a virtuosic chamber orchestra, and a principal cast of internationally- renowned opera singers. Find all the dates and details by clicking the button below.
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