Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Blu-Ray/DVD) – John Lundgren, Asmik Grigorian

Composer: Richard Wagner
Artists: Georg Zeppenfeld, Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Marina Prudenskaya, Attilio Glaser, John Lundgren, Chor & Orchester der Bayreuter Festspiele
Conductor: Oksana Lyniv
Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov
Video Format: 1080i 16:9 / NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0 / DTS-Surround 5.0
Language: German
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 2
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: August 12, 2022
Run Time: 148 minutes

The 2021 Bayreuth Festival opened with this “breathtaking” (Welt) new Holländer, recast by star director Dmitri Tcherniakov as a tale of violent revenge. The Senta of Asmik Grigorian, “one of the finest acting talents in opera...met with a roaring ovation” (New York Times). John Lundgren was the “impressively dark” (Welt) Dutchman. Georg Zeppenfeld’s Daland “makes you hang on to every word” (Financial Times). Ukrainian “sensation” (BR-Klassik) Oksana Lyniv, Bayreuth’s first female conductor, “was always both driven by and driving the drama, with sharp attention to detail and pacing” (New York Times).

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