[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about OPERA - StudyStack [PAR] Free flashcards to help memorize facts about OPERA. ... A NORWEGIAN SEA 
CAPTAIN IS A CHARACTER IS THIS 1843 OPERA, THE FLYING DUTCHMAN 
..... THIS OPERA COMPOSER'S ART REALLY TOOK OFF WITH 1843'S "THE... [DOC] [TLE] The Flying Dutchman (opera) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Flying Dutchman (German: Der fliegende Hollnder), WWV 63, is a German-
language ... In his 1843 Autobiographic Sketch, Wagner acknowledged he had 
taken the story ... the legend of the Flying Dutchman, which the sailors verified, 
took on a ... Wagner actually sold the sketch to the Director of the Opra, Lon 
Pillet,... [DOC] [TLE] Richard Wagner - Wikipedia [PAR] Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, 
and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later 
works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner 
wrote both the libretto and the music ..... In "The Artwork of the Future" (1849), he 
described a vision of opera as... [DOC] [TLE] Seattle Opera Blog: Spotlight On: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN [PAR] First Performed Dresden, 1843 | In German with English Captions | Marion Oliver 
... Senta is a young woman who has never really fit in among the giggly, ... She's 
obsessed with the legend of the Flying Dutchman and constantly .... who paid off 
the composer's considerable debts and presented Dutchman again in 1864. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 28: Opera and Musical Theater in the Later Nineteenth ... [PAR] His familymoderately well-off landholders, despite Verdi's continued ... In these 
works, as in all his operas, Verdi attempted to balance the art of bel canto, ... after 
by The Flying Dutchman (1843), Tannhuser (1845), and Lohengrin (1850). .... 
forced service during the Franco-Prussian war took their toll on the composer. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 19: Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century ... [PAR] His familymoderately well-off landholders, despite Verdi's continued references 
... In these works, as in all his operas, Verdi attempted to balance the art of bel 
canto, ... by Der fliegender Hollnder (The Flying Dutchman, 1843), Tannhuser (
1845), .... service during the Franco-Prussian War took their toll on the composer. [DOC] [TLE] THE FLYING DUTCHMAN  Richard Wagner | Paul Thomason [PAR] Another took the opposite tack, labeling it Meyerbeer worst opera. ... Unable to 
pay his bills (not an unusual situation for Wagner) the composer, his wife ... ship, 
they at last found shelter off the coast of Norway, which Wagner described as ... 
The music Richard Wagner wrote for The Flying Dutchman seemed very new at 
the... [DOC] [TLE] The opera novice: The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner ... [PAR] May 2, 2012 ... In Wagner's early opera we find all the stormy emotions of his more ... This is 
what happens to Senta, the heroine of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (1843). ... 
The Dutchman was not the composer's first opera, but as I learnt from ... (One 
couldn't take her eyes off the stage.) ... Bellini's Norma: the soprano's art. [DOC] [TLE] The Flying Dutchman - San Diego Opera [PAR] With the passage of time, his telling took on some romantic overtones, but the 
facts are ... The figure of the 'Flying Dutchman' is a mythic-poetic creation of the 
folk. ... He then asked the composer Meyerbeer to act as an intermediary in ... 
was delayed so that the first performance could be in Dresden (January 2, 1843). [DOC] [TLE] Richard Wagner - Musically Speaking [PAR] The Flying Dutchman was Wagner's first great success. ... The taxing and very 
difficult role of Senta is sung by a dramatic soprano. ... No artist expressed the 
ideals of nineteenth-century Romanticism more vividly than Richard Wagner. ... In 
1843 the opera house in Dresden produced the work, and Wagner moved to that
... [DOC] [TLE] Virginia Opera - Virginia

Question: This opera composer's art really took off with 1843's "The Flying Dutchman"
Answer: Wagner