Composers: Wagner
Compositions: Die Fliegender Holländer
Performers: Samuel Youn bar, Ingela Brimberg s, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Arnold Schoenberg Chor/Marc Minkowski
Catalogue Number: Naxos 2110637 (DVD), NBD0099V (Blu-ray)

With its ghostly anti-hero, obsessive heroine and a plot littered with Freudian symbols, The Flying Dutchman is the ripest of Wagner’s early operas for a psychological deep dive. He may not show us a ship, a spinning wheel, or a portrait, but that is what Olivier Py does in this intellectual, brilliantly conceived, and occasionally baffling 2015 staging for Theater an der Wien.