The Flying Dutchman

…the basis of the opera Der fliegende Holländer (1843) by the German composer Richard Wagner.

…with Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), he began to develop a novel method of operatic construction using leitmotifs—brief melodic and other motifs symbolizing situations, characters, or abstract ideas—as materials for spinning a more or less continuous web of music in which the voice was only one strand. Already,…

…opera, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), based on the legend about a ship’s captain condemned to sail forever.