The Flying Dutchman

Director Christine Mielitz and her set designer Stefan Mayer see Daland's and the Dutchman's ships as an image of the entire world, of life itself, in which we all have to find our way around. Accordingly, the scenes on land also have the feel of a ship's interior. The color red is also a special color in this production: it symbolizes blood, revolution, but also a prisoner's space, the Dutchman's psychic space, into which he repeatedly lures others and destroys them.