The Flying Russian

From the Metropolitan Opera:

Evgeny Nikitin will sing the Dutchman in all performances of the Met’s new production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, replacing Sir Bryn Terfel, who withdraw last week due to ankle surgery.

Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin has previously sung the Dutchman at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre and in Baden-Baden, Madrid, Toronto, Paris, Leipzig and Tokyo. At the Met, he performed in this season’s New Year’s Eve Gala and has sung Gunther in Götterdämmerung, Klingsor in Parsifal, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Rangoni in Boris Godunov, Orest in Elektra, Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Colline in La Bohème, Fasolt in Das Rheingold, and Dolokhov in War and Peace, among other roles. At the Mariinsky Theatre, his roles have included Wotan in the Ring cycle, Scarpia in Tosca, Jochanaan in Salome, Philip II in Don Carlo, the title role Don Giovanni, and Ruslan in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila, among many others.

François Girard’s new staging of Der Fliegende Holländer opens March 2, with Valery Gergiev conducting a cast that also includes Anja Kampe in her Met debut as Senta, Franz-Josef Selig as Daland, Sergey Skorokhodov as Erik, David Portillo as the Steersman, and Mihoko Fujimura as Mary.

Performances of Der Fliegende Holländer are March 2, 6, 10, 14mat, 18, 21, 24, and 27. The March 14 matinee will be transmitted live as part of the Met’s Live in HD series, which reaches more than 2,000 cinemas in more than 70 countries around the world.