Richard Wagner’s Ghost Ship
Richard Wagner’s Ghost Ship
- Directed by Max Hoehn
- Music Director Graeme Jenkins
- Choir of the National Theater of São Carlos
- Ricercare Choir
- Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
- COPRODUCTION Centro Cultural de Belém, OPART/Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
CCB . 24 and 26 April . Monday and Wednesday . 20:00 . Grand Auditorium
- Music Director Graeme Jenkins
- Directed by Max Hoehn
- Scenography and light design Giuseppe di Iorio
- Illustration and video Amber Cooper Davis
- Rafaela Mapril costumes
- The Dutchman Tómas Tómasson
- Senta Gabriela Scherer
- Erik Peter Wedd
- Daland Peter Rose
- Helmsman Marco Alves dos Santos
- Maria Maria Luisa de Freitas
- Choir of the National Theater of São Carlos (Maestro Giampaolo Vessella)
- Ricercare Choir (Maestro Pedro Teixeira)
- Portuguese Symphony Orchestra (Principal Conductor Antonio Pirolli)
The opera The Phantom Ship («Der fliegende Holländer» in the original title) premiered in 1843 under the musical direction of Richard Wagner. The libretto belongs to the realm of the fantastic: for having invoked the Devil, a Dutch sailor (by some identified as the Romantic Hero) was condemned to wander the seas eternally, commanding a ghost ship. He is granted, as an escape from the curse, the possibility of being able to come to Earth every seven years and find a woman who will be faithful to him until death. The redeemer will be the daughter of the sailor Daland, Senta, who will break the curse by throwing herself into the sea.
The work presented, for the first time, some constitutive elements of all future Wagnerian production and contains environments and characters impregnated with realism. Daland, a striking example, will be sung by the British singer Peter Rose. The opera O Navio Fantasma was presented at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos on March 4, 1893, and already had notable Dutch interpreters there. The new production is signed by Max Hoehn, a young director who was part of Graham Vick’s artistic team in the production of Alceste in São Carlos, in 2019, and who will transport the epic character of Wagner’s music to a sustainable scenic design, in line with the challenges of our time.
O Navio Fantasma is a landmark in the life and work of Wagner, as not only is it here that the innovation of Wagnerian drama begins to manifest itself, both in the originality of its musical language and in the conception and elaboration of the libretto, but it is also in this opera that it appears for the first time. for the first time, the theme of redemption through love will be recurrent in the composer’s future work. Don’t miss the presentation of the opera by Eugénio Sena 45 minutes before the show.
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