Word: senta
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...used the legend of the Flying Dutchman for his fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long sought...
...disappointed with singing which, according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high the ghoulish scene of her meeting with the Dutchman, her promise to redeem...