The wild tempest that whipped and drenched the audience as it exited the Met after Tuesday’s season premiere of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer mirrored the finer features of the evening.
We leave behind the Vienna of the 1740s, the time of breeches, fans and white wigs.
Certain opera productions become the stuff of legend as much for the circumstances surrounding the performance as for the musical results.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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