Romantic opera by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer, based on Heinrich Heine’s “Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski”. World premiere on January 2, 1843 in Dresden Semperoper. Premiere at the Estonian National Opera on September 22, 2016.

“The Flying Dutchman” (Der fliegende Holländer) was Wagner’s fourth opera and the one in which he came closer towards his own style and aspirations of writing a music drama. The young composer found a kindred spirit in the cursed and ever sailing Dutchman: a man who pursues to change the accustomed rules and who yearns for rest from the storms of life.