The Flying Dutchman

Richard Wagner’s gothic tale of redemption, The Flying Dutchman, docks at Scottish Opera.

Scottish Opera’s production, directed by Harry Fehr, deals away with a lot of the mythology in a traditional reading of Wagner, instead setting the action on a remote Scottish oil-rig community in the 1970s.

“It’s Fehr’s expert evocation of a strange, haunted other world, brilliantly conjured in Tom Scutt’s grimy staging and Ian William Galloway’s vivid video projections, that is memorable.” – The Scotsman

Senta is obsessed by the painting of the Dutchman that hangs on the wall of the town hall. As a counterpoint to the 70s realism elsewhere, we create a backdrop of shifting, moving oil paintings to portray the storm and the huge tanker vessel that appears through it.

“[The Dutchman] appears from a destroyer wreathed in blood-rinsed mist, one of the many beautiful images from video designer Ian William Galloway” – The Telegraph

Client:
Scottish Opera

Location:
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, UK, 2013
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, UK, 2013

Services:
Video & Projection Design
Content Creation

Team:
Video Designer: Ian William Galloway
Animator: Daniel Denton

Production Credits:
Director: Harry Fehr
Set & Costume Designer: Tom Scutt
Lighting Designer: James Farncombe

Photos:
© Mesmer