Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer

Composer: Richard Wagner Artists: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (The Dutchman), Gottlob Frick Daland (Norwegian sea captain), Fritz Wunderlich (Daland’s...Composer: Richard Wagner Artists: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (The Dutchman), Gottlob Frick Daland (Norwegian sea captain), Fritz Wunderlich (Daland’s steersman), Marianne Schech (Senta, Daland’s 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 lesser-performed The Flying Dutchman, an opera that marks the beginning of Wagner’s matur