Bryn Terfel

The Flying Dutchman, Grange Park Opera, review: no storm and no ship in this prosaic economy staging

• For its last opera of the season, Grange Park Opera has offered just two performances of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) in what is curiously described as a ‘free staging’. Stephen Medcalf is listed as its director, but there are no credits for costumes or sets – wisely, as the costumes are random contemporary, and the Flying Dutchman’s fated ship is represented by a row of portholes which the cast crawl through awkwardly, and a set of stairs that moves on stage, bumping i