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The Flying Dutchman

Favorite thing:
About four or five years ago I missed a unique opportunity.

In Frankfurt I went to an afternoon performance of Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner, and realized too late that I could have taken the train to Wiesbaden and seen a different production of the same opera that same evening. (It's Wagner's shortest opera, and still has a lot of Bellini influence that he later rejected, so seeing it twice in one day would have been no problem.)

I did see the Wiesbaden production eventually. Since it was sold out I had to sit way off to the side, so I didn't get a complete view of the stage -- there was a bright red sailing ship on a black background or visa versa -- but it was still very good because that was the evening they had Simon Estes in as a guest singer, the only time I've ever heard him live.