Gabriela Scherer is rapidly becoming one of the most acclaimed and requested interpreters of the role of Senta in Der fliegende Holländer on the international scene. Amid a run of the Wagner masterpiece at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dūsseldorf, the Swiss soprano will star in three performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on March 16, 20, and 20, 2025, in a Christian Spuck production led by John Fiore, singing alongside Derek Welton in the title role, Attilio Glaser as Erik, Patrick Guetti as Daland, Stephanie Wake-Edwards as Mary, and Chance Jonas-O’Toole as the Helmsman.

Gabriela Scherer will also interpret Senta this May in two concert performances at the Philharmonie Luxembourg and Bozar Brussels.

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Der fliegende Holländer
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About the Opera

The Dutchman is a cursed soul, a restless wanderer, an outsider. Richard Wagner first encountered the figure of this lost man through Heinrich Heine, who told the romantic tale with his characteristic irony. However, Wagner had no interest in Heine’s framing narrative, which distanced the story. Instead, he immersed himself in the tale of the mysterious sailor and created his first opera about a man’s quest for redemption through a woman’s love. The Dutchman, a restless traveler between life and death, meets Senta, who also seems like an outsider, longing for a male figure born from her own imagination: the Dutchman.

Composed in 1841 and premiered in Dresden in 1843, Wagner’s opera marks a stylistic shift from his previous Rienzi, which followed the Grand Opéra tradition, toward the German Romantic opera tradition of Weber and Marschner. The Flying Dutchman also marks the beginning of Wagner’s distinctive compositional style, pioneering a new form of musical drama. For the first time, Wagner places at its core the theme that would define his life’s work: redemption through love in death.

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