Wagner : Le Vaisseau fantôme. Janowski.

   in Opera Now (Oct, 2012)
Der fliegende Holla?nder comes from November 2010. Janowski proves himself a fluent, lyrical Wagnerian; he adopts the composer’s later changes to the score, which give the ending of the overture and the opera itself harmonic traits Wagner by then associated with the notion of redemption. He also joins up the three acts into one continuous piece of music, as Wagner originally planned but never, in fact, actually executed in the performances he conducted.

Albert Dohmen’s Dutchman has a few rough edges – maybe not inappropriately given that the accursed sea-captain has been sailing continually for centuries – but his is a regularly striking interpretation. German soprano Ricarda Merberth is a hardworking …