About this minute
- Title
- The Flying Dutchman - Overture
- Performer
- Bayeuther Festival Orchestra
- Creator
- Richard Wagner
- Collections
- Collection 2
Collection 2 #38
You heard music from ‘The Flying Dutchman’, an opera by composer Richard Wagner. An opera has lots of music, singing and acting to tell a story. This piece is about a ghost ship that is doomed to sail forever without reaching land. Spooky! Wagner wanted the music to sound like stormy weather on the sea….