{"id":429407,"date":"2026-10-16T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429407\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:20:19","slug":"flying-dutchman-sails-to-opera-orlando-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429407\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flying Dutchman\u2019 sails to Opera Orlando in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opera Orlando<\/a> has a new performance sailing onto the stage this coming January.\n<\/p>\n

Tickets are now available for \u201cFlying Dutchman\u201d<\/a> by Richard Wagner. The tale of a cursed captain will be Opera Orlando\u2019s first Wagner production, onstage Jan. 22\u201324, 2027.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the opera where Wagner truly became Wagner,\u201d said Opera Orlando\u2019s artistic director, Grant Preisser, in a press release. \u201cHe wrote it after a storm-wrecked crossing of the North Sea, and you can hear it. The score doesn\u2019t describe the ocean. It is the ocean.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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German soprano Johanna Will is part of the cast of Opera Orlando\u2019s first ever Richard Wagner production with \u201cFlying Dutchman.\u201d (COURTESY OF OPERA ORLANDO)<\/p>\n

\u201cFlying Dutchman,\u201d written in 1843, is \u201ca ghost story, a love story, and a force of nature all at once,\u201d according to the press release.\n<\/p>\n

Baritone Darren Drone will return to Orlando as the lead with German soprano Johanna Will as Senta. \u201cFlying Dutchman\u201d will also feature bass Nathan Stark as Daland, tenor Brendan J. Boyle as Erik, mezzo-soprano Lauran Zahn as Mary and tenor Benjamin Ruiz as Steersman, with Geoffrey Loff conducting the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we started this company, Wagner was an aspiration,\u201d Preisser said in the release. \u201cIn just ten years, that aspiration is becoming a reality.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Check out the full Opera Orlando calendar at OperaOrlando.org<\/a> or purchase tickets for \u201cFlying Dutchman\u201d at DrPhillipsCenter.org\/theme\/opera-orlando-5pnz<\/a>.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opera Orlando has a new performance sailing onto the stage this coming January. Tickets are now available for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-429407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}