Watch Johan Reuter as The Flying Dutchman

Johan Reuter as the Flying Dutchman and buffing up at the gym

You can currently watch barihunk (bear-a-hunk) Johan Reuter in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman from the Finnish National Opera on the OperaPlatform. We recently featured the Danish singer buffing up in preparation for this role. The video will be available until February 12, 2017.

In this production, director Kasper Holten interprets the opera without four-masters, hawsers and nautical romanticism. Instead, the errant sailor becomes an artist, trapped in the world of international jet set. A man, driven by his inspiration and forced to live without ever finding a place called home. Holten draws attention to Senta as well, wondering who is this girl that is willing to sacrifice herself through devotion and is it really selflessness that drives her?

In 2017, Reuter will make two role debuts. On January 21, he debuts in a new production of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking at the Royal Danish Opera. In May, he'll make his role debut in Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers at the Theater an den Wien.