The Dutchman Sighted Again in New York on Cue: Paula M. and Edward A. Bortnichak are thrilled by the marriage of the Met’s new music director and an evergreen revival

Review of Der fliegende Holländer, directed Everding, conducted Nézet-Séguin, New York Met, 2017.

November 2017, Volume 11, Number 3, 63–5.

The Metropolitan Opera has had a long and honourable history of engagement with Wagner’s earliest masterwork: the first production opened the 1889–90 season in the company’s inaugural decade and was seen regularly through to 1908. The ban on German opera at the height of the First World War halted voyages to New York for a time, but they resumed with regularity in the 1930s and in each subsequent decade, often serving as the vehicle for many of the most notable Heldenbaritones and dramatic sopranos of the day.