Edited by Richard Walker, Wednesday, 7 Aug 2019, 00:17
In an unfortunate episode earlier this evening, the first performance of Herr Wagner’s opera, The Flying Dutchman, about a spectral sea vessel, was abandoned at the last minute.
The cause was the stage instructions, which although spoken with the utmost clarity by Herr Wagner as ‘Ghost ship’, must have been misheard for some reason.
From Our Opera Correspondent
In an unfortunate episode earlier this evening, the first performance of Herr Wagner’s opera, The Flying Dutchman, about a spectral sea vessel, was abandoned at the last minute.
The cause was the stage instructions, which although spoken with the utmost clarity by Herr Wagner as ‘Ghost ship’, must have been misheard for some reason.