The film maybe old and studio-made, sometimes with bad lip sync, but McIntyre's Holländer shines. His voice is gorgeous (see also the Chéreau Ring), and he's incredibly beautiful, hot and young here. You can totally understand Senta. Erik? Just a boring tenor. The music... well, weird. Great Wagnerian moments and also Italian-like schemes. He searches his voice, and sometimes he finds it, but this is not his best opera. Beautiful, but not Tristan or the Ring. Sung well, it works really good.
McIntyre makes the Holländer not a cold undead, he plays a suffering, desperate man, whose only wish is to find salvation - that means, to die at last. And Senta gives him this salvation. Wonderful closing scene, the girl springs into the sea, swims to him and they embrace each other as the ship sinks.
The singers are all good, although Senta seems to me a lyric soprano, not a real Wagner-heroine. But in movie, it goes. On stage it wouldn't work.
Daland is not a Salminen type basso profondo, but he works. And we have a young Steuermann with a beautiful voice.
Also, if you want a HOT Holländer, get this. McIntyre always plays humanly, tragic characters. His Wotan is not a king, not a God - just an unhappy, lonely man.
McIntyre makes the Holländer not a cold undead, he plays a suffering, desperate man, whose only wish is to find salvation - that means, to die at last. And Senta gives him this salvation. Wonderful closing scene, the girl springs into the sea, swims to him and they embrace each other as the ship sinks.
The singers are all good, although Senta seems to me a lyric soprano, not a real Wagner-heroine. But in movie, it goes. On stage it wouldn't work.
Daland is not a Salminen type basso profondo, but he works. And we have a young Steuermann with a beautiful voice.
Also, if you want a HOT Holländer, get this. McIntyre always plays humanly, tragic characters. His Wotan is not a king, not a God - just an unhappy, lonely man.