Wagner: The Flying Dutchman

The Wagner year 2013 brought something special to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's concert schedule. The RCO pulled out all the stops with a full performance of a Wagner opera in concert version.

Busy carving out an impressive career for himself and making his fifth appearance at Bayreuth last summer, Andris Nelsons has certainly earned his spurs as a Wagner specialist. He has led the RCO and a cast of international soloists in Der fliegende Holländer, an opera about the captain of an infamous Dutch ghost ship who can be freed only by a woman who consents to marry him.