“The Flying Dutchman” remains in the repertoire of opera companies
today not primarily because of its own intrinsic value, but because it
is an embryonic seedling to the mighty forest that would become
Wagnerian opera, changing music’s history. If it were not for Richard
Wagner’s later output, with its revolutionary style and fanatical
obsession, this work would likely be lining paper in the drawers of
operatic history.
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