TY - BOOK AU - Wagner,Richard TI - The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollaender): Romantic Opera in Three Acts AV - ML PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Operas -- Librettos N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_fliegende_Holl%C3%A4nder; Release date is 2010-04-12; Produced by Louise Hope, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollaender): Romantic Opera in Three Acts" by Richard Wagner is a German-language opera composed in 1840-1841. A sea captain cursed to sail forever can only be saved through the love of a faithful woman. Inspired by Wagner's own stormy sea voyage and Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend, this work explores redemption through love. Wagner introduces leitmotifs—recurring musical themes—for characters and ideas, marking an early step toward his later groundbreaking operatic style. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31963 ER -