Vienna premiere cast of the Flying Dutchman

Leitmotiv of the Dutchman

The Viennese premiere cast of the Flying Dutchman lists all those involved in the new productions of Richard Wagner's romantic opera The Flying Dutchman , which took place at the k. u. k Hofoper , today's State Opera, took place. The first performance in Vienna on November 2, 1860, which was still taking place in the Kärntnertortheater , was also taken into account . It is thanks to the composer and conductor Heinrich Esser (1818–1872) that he campaigned for the early Wagner operas. He had been working at the Court Opera since 1847 and directed it on an interim basis in 1860/61. In 1858 he brought about the inclusion of Lohengrin and 1860 of the Flying Dutchman in the repertoire of the court opera.

So far, there have been eight new productions in the Haus am Ring and in the alternative Theater an der Wien with a total of 833 performances until the theater ban in March 2020 due to COVID-19 .

The premiere cast

In the sixth column the number of performances of the respective production is given. The Christine Mielitz production is still on the program of the State Opera. The specified number of performances describes the status of March 2020.

Dutchman	Senta	Daland Mary	Erik helmsman
First performance in Vienna , November 2, 1860, conductor: Heinrich Esser , set design: Carlo Brioschi (in the Hofoperntheater next to the Kärntnerthor)
Johann Nepomuk Beck	Gabrielle Krauss	Karl Mayerhofer Amalie Weiss	Gustav Walter Josef Erl	?
First performance in the Haus am Ring , January 27, 1871, Leading Team unknown
Johann Nepomuk Beck	Louise Dustmann-Meyer	Karl Mayerhofer Ernestine Gindele	Gustav Gunz Theodor Lay	300
Hans Breuer , February 18, 1922, conductor: Richard Strauss , sets: Alfred Roller
Emil Schipper	Barbara Kemp	Nicola Zec Hermione Kittel	Laurenz Hofer Georg Maikl	75
New production: Hans Duhan , May 9, 1934, conductor: Eugen Szenkar , set design: Alfred Roller
Friedrich Schorr	Maria Németh	Karl Norbert Enid Szánto	Josef Kalenberg Georg Maikl	85
Oscar Fritz Schuh , October 30, 1947, conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch , sets and costumes: Robert Kautsky (in the Theater an der Wien )
Hans Hotter	Hilde Konetzni	Herbert Alsen Else Schürhoff	Horst Taubmann Anton Dermota	68
Adolf Rott , May 6, 1959, conductor: Karl Böhm , sets and costumes: Robert Kautsky , choir master : Richard Rossmayer
Otto Edelmann	Inge Borkh	Josef Greindl Elisabeth Höngen	Brian Sullivan Karl Terkal	68
Wieland Wagner , March 2, 1967, conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser , sets and costumes: Wieland Wagner , choir master: Walter Hagen-Groll
Otto Wiener	Leonie Rysanek	Oskar Czerwenka Hilde Konetzni	James King Gerhard Unger	34
Wolfgang Zörner , December 1, 1972, conductor: Otmar Suitner , sets: Günther Schneider-Siemssen , costumes: Günther Schneider-Siemssen and Leo Bei , choir director: Norbert Balatsch
Cornell MacNeil	Janis Martin	Manfred Schenk Margarita Lilowa	William Cochran Adolf Dallapozza	145
Christine Mielitz , December 5, 2003, conductor: Seiji Ozawa , set design: Stefan Mayer , dramaturgy: Eva Walch , choir master : Ernst Dunshirn
Falk Struckmann	Nina Stemme	Franz Hawlata Mihaela Ungureanu	Torsten Guy John Dickie	58

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• Performance statistics of the Vienna State Opera , accessed on July 2, 2020
• Schedule of the Vienna Opera from 1869 to 1955 , keyword: Fliegende Holländer, Der, accessed on July 2, 2020

References and comments

1. ^ Richard Wagner's 200th birthday in 2013 , keyword: Vienna, accessed on July 2, 2020