Composers: Wagner
Compositions: Die Fliegender Holländer
Performers: Samuel Youn bar, Ingela Brimberg s, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Arnold Schoenberg Chor/Marc Minkowski
Catalogue Number: Naxos 2110637 (DVD), NBD0099V (Blu-ray)

With its ghostly anti-hero, obsessive heroine and a plot littered with Freudian symbols, The Flying Dutchman is the ripest of Wagner’s early operas for a psychological deep dive. He may not show us a ship, a spinning wheel, or a portrait, but that is what Olivier Py does in this intellectual, brilliantly conceived, and occasionally baffling 2015 staging for Theater an der Wien.

Py is working from Wagner’s 1841 Paris version. Senta’s...