The opera ‘The Flying Dutchman’, by Wagner, is to wrap up the current season of the Teatro Pérez Galdós Canary Islands’ Foundation
The production with Miguel Ángel Coque at the helm of stage direction and conducted by Pedro Halffter, is to be performed on 17th, 20th and 23rd July
The 2009-2010 season of the Teatro Pérez Galdós Canary Islands’ Foundation comes to a close with the staging of the opera The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner, and is to be performed on 17th, 20th and 23rd July at 20:30 hours.
This own production is under the stage direction of Miguel Ángel Coque and with the maestro Pedro Halffter at the helm of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria. The Prague State Opera Chorus and members of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Alfredo Kraus Opera Season Chorus are also to be participating, with the directors Tvrtko Karlovic and Olga Santana respectively. The leading roles are played by a high level cast, including John Lundgren, Johann Tilli, Ricarda Merbeth, Alfons Eberz, Barbara Bornemann and Vicente Ombuena.
In The Flying Dutchman, Wagner plays heavily on the emotions to expand upon the idea of human redemption. Trapped within ourselves by our own suffering and anguish, much like The Flying Dutchman, escape can only be found through true love – as Senta experiences - , which is born from compassion, understood as the capacity to feel the pain of others as your own.
This production by Miguel Ángel Coque centres around this core idea and puts forward a symbolic interpretation intended to make the underlying Herat of the drama more readily understandable and to enhance its deep emotional impact, with the sole purpose of stimulating the emotions of the audience.
According to Coque himself, the set design, lighting, costume design and the scenic movement itself, are all “serving the musical-drama discourse”.
The aim of the set design, work of the stage director himself, is to “externalize the essence of what is happening in the drama, a mainly symbolic function, with the same for the lighting.” Coque status, “ My aim is, furthermore, to create different atmospheres by using colour and light density and, from this perspective, paint the sound so that one can see what one is able to see what one listening to – the same goes for sculpting the sound by means of accentuated choreographic scenic actions-”.
Francis Maniglia is at the head of the lighting design, whilst Pedro Moreno leads costume design, a benchmark as regards characterization in Spanish theatre and opera.
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