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Stormy weather and an enthusiastic audience mark Julia Burbach’s The Flying Dutchman as it proves a smashing success to open the 2025 season of Opera Holland Park.

Willem de Kooning was a Dutchman who flew the coop of the Old World for the open opportunities of the New. Yet he carried the Old World with him, remembering what was important to him from the ...

Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer (“The Flying Dutchman”) opens with a violent North Sea storm that drives the Dutchman’s ship into port for shelter and right on cue the canvas sides of ...

Read our review of The Flying Dutchman at the Holland Park Theatre, ... The single set by Naomi Dawson suggests the outline of a ship, but also doubles as Daland and Senta’s home.

Wisely, it has opted for The Flying Dutchman, Wagner’s fourth opera (premiered in 1843), rather than any of his far bulkier later works. Not that the opera is lightweight.

Opening night of the 2025 season at Opera Holland Park – London’s most popular opera company – is devoted to the company’s first shot at Wagner.

Following the invitation from an old friend, you arrive in a seaport town. But no one is waiting for your arrival, and the whole town is shrouded in horror. Terrified citizens are crying, “He is ...