Slipway to Heaven: Michael Fuller’s survey of the spring’s streamed performances sees the gradual return of audiences and takes him from shipyard to prison

Reviews of Der fliegende Holländer, directed Abaris and Šeduikis, conducted Pitrenas, Klaipėda, Lithuania, 2020 (via OperaVision); Parsifal, directed Serebrennikov, conducted Jordan, Vienna, 2021 (via Arte Concert); Die Walküre, Act I (concert perf.), conducted Fisch, Munich, 2021 (via Bavarian State Opera website).

November 2021, Volume 15, Number 3, 75–80.

Filmed in 2020, but made available via OperaVision for a limited period this year, Klaipėda State Music Theatre’s ambitious open-air production of Der fliegende Holländer is nothing if not atmospheric, taking advantage of its Lithuanian shipyard location and placing the action, in OperaVision’s words, on ‘the shores of the stormy sea in which the idea for the opera first occurred to Wagner’.