The great bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel returns to the
company for the first time since 2012, in the title role of the cursed sea
captain doomed to sail the open ocean for eternity. Valery Gergiev conducts a
new production by François Girard, whose visionary 2013 take on Parsifal set
the recent Met standard for Wagner stagings. With sweeping sets by John
Macfarlane, Girard’s new production turns the Met stage into a rich, layered
tableau reminiscent of a vast oil painting. The gifted German soprano Anja
Kampe, in her Met debut, is the devoted Senta, whose selfless love is what the
Dutchman seeks, with bass Franz-Josef Selig as her father, Daland, and tenor
Sergey Skorokhodov as her deserted former lover, Erik.
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National
Opera, The Abu Dhabi Festival, and The Quebec Opera
Production a gift of Veronica Atkins