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THE
FLYING DUTCHMAN
(DER FLIEGENDE HOLLAENDER)
ROMANTIC OPERA
IN THREE ACTS
BY
RICHARD WAGNER
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FRED. RULLMAN, INC., NEW YORK, N.Y.
ARGUMENT
ACT I.
A Norwegian brig is driven out of her course on the homeward voyage,and near the rockbound Norwegian Coast meets with the phantom ship ofthe “Flying Dutchman.” Daland, the captain of the Norwegian vessel,enters into a compact with the “Flying Dutchman” whose identity,however, is unknown to him, to give him a home and his daughter, Senta,for a wife, in consideration of the rich treasures stored away in the“Flying Dutchman’s” ship.
ACT II.
When the curtain rises, a bevy of Norwegian Girls, among whom areDaland’s daughter, Senta and her nurse Mary, are discovered turningtheir spinning wheels and singing a spinning song. A picture of the“Flying Dutchman” adorns the wall, and Senta, after singing a balladsketching in incoherent, passionate strains, a story of the s