Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer opera to a libretto by the composer. Directed 2021 by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Bayreuth Festival. Stars John Lundgren (The Dutchman), Asmik Grigorian (Senta), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland), Eric Cutler (Erik), Marina Prudenskaya (Mary), and Attilio Glaser (The Steersman). Oksana Lyniv conducts the Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele. Stage design by Dmitri Tcherniakov; costume design by Elena Zaytseva; lighting design by Gleb Filshtinsky; dramaturgy by Tatjana Werestchtschagina. Sung in German. Directed for TV by Andy Sommer. Released 2022. (Preliminary information needs confirmation.) Grade: NA
Another Tcherniakov deconstruction project, this time to excellent Wagner music at the Bayreuth big house. Oksana Lyniv is the first female conductor to appear at the Bayreuth Festival. Jim Pritchard saw this live and wrote an exhaustive review (July 2021) for seenandheard-international.com. He includes a lengthy synopsis of the Tcherniakov vision, without which most of us would be completely lost. Pritchard flips out for Grigorian calling her “one of the leading singing actors of her generation.” Mike Ashman, writing at page 86 of the September 2022 Gramophone, praises the superb lineup of singers. But Ashman finds this production has “rather too much Tcherniakov and maybe not quite enough Wagner.” Ashman concludes this title is for those who “know the subject matter well and enjoy adventurous theatrical imagery.”
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