Metalium - Astral Avatar

But not only this intention served as a turning point in the entire work of Wagner. “Flying Dutchman” was already a phenomenon fundamentally new in opera at that time. It can not be placed next to the "Rienzi". According to Wagner himself, “no artist had such a one-of-a-kind example of a complete transformation that took place in such a short period of time” (recall that the composer completed The Flying Dutchman in just seven weeks of the autumn of 1841, then there is a little less than a year after the "Rienzi").