2006/2007 Season Opera
[New Production]

Richard Wagner : DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

OPERA HOUSE

Daland	:	Matsui Hiroshi
Senta	:	Anja Kampe
Erik	:	Endrik Wottrich
Mary	:	Takemoto Setsuko
Steuermann	:	Takahashi Jun
Holländer	:	Juha Uusitalo
Chorus	:	New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra	:	Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

February/March 2007	25	1	4	7	10
	Sun	Thu	Sun	Wed	Sat
2:00	X	X	X		X
7:00				X

Doors will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.

	S	A	B	C	D	Z
Price(yen)	21,000	15,750	10,500	6,300	3,150	1,500

The masterpiece in which Wagner established an individual musical language. The theme of the opera-the "salvation through love and self-sacrifice" embodied in the tale of the Dutch sea-captain condemned to wander the seas for eternity and his salvation through the love of a young woman-is one that is common to all of Wagner's oeuvre. It is a work filled with things to delight the ear and eye, from the immensely powerful orchestration, the brilliant arias, and the famous "Sailor's Chorus" to director's noteworthy interpretation of the finale.

A Dutch ghost ship eternally wanders the seas until its cursed captain can find a woman who will pledge herself to him. Once in every seven years he is permitted to land to search for such a one, and when he does he meets Senta, daughter of Daland, another sea-captain. Senta, feeling this to be a fated encounter, rejects the pleas of her suitor Erik, and pursues Holländer, throwing herself into the waves in order to save him. With this, the spell is broken, the ghost ship sinks with a terrifying sound, and Senta and Holländer are borne into heaven in each other's arms.