When Daland and his Norwegian sailors spot the Dutchman's ship, they hail him. He tells them that he is doomed to sail the seas and can come on land once every seven years to seek redemption from the curse. Daland, who is rather greedy, hopes the wealthy stranger will marry his daughter, although Erik, a young hunter, has already been courting her. They go to Daland's house, where Senta promises obedience to her father's wishes. She has been feeling that Erik is a little bit too conventional and boring and she finds the stranger mysterious and romantic, so she sings her desire to be the woman who can redeem the Dutchman. He warns that her fate won't be pretty if she swears fidelity but fails to keep it, but Senta has fallen in love at first sight and pledges her faithfulness unto death. Party time! But when the sailors and their women call to the Dutch ship for the crew to come ashore and join the celebration, it becomes clear that the ship is manned by ghosts. Written by Fiona Kelleghan

1987年，维尔纳·赫尔佐格在拜罗伊特执导的理查德·瓦格纳歌剧《罗恩格林》。

该片是为在德国电视台播放的歌剧而拍摄的纪录片，它描述了歌剧制作的幕后操作过程。

茫茫大海上漂泊着一艘红帆黑桅的阴森可怖的船，船长荷兰人由于受到魔鬼的诅咒，穷其一生都要在海上流浪，每隔七年才能上岸一次，只有遇到一位真心爱他并肯为他牺牲的女人，他的流浪生涯才可能终止。又一个七年的轮回开始了，荷兰人在挪威海岸靠岸。挪威船长达兰德美丽善良的女儿珊塔从小就听说荷兰人的传说，一直对他充满同情并产生了爱意，她坚信可以给予荷兰人不朽的爱情从而使他获得救赎。但是，还有一个名叫艾瑞克的青年也钟情于珊塔，碰巧有一天当他对着珊塔倾诉自己的爱情时，被荷兰人听见，忧伤而绝望的荷兰人想到自己这次必又将遭人抛弃，于是决然而去。珊塔急忙追赶，她挣脱了众人，跑到海边的悬崖，纵身跳入海中。荷兰人的船沉了下去，海水涌起了高浪……

2007年4月，施林根西夫在马瑙斯上演瓦格纳的歌剧。为此，他离开了歌剧院，前往丛林和里约黑人地区。直至那时，他才得以重返传说中的亚马逊。在工作期间，他会拍摄18部短片，这些短片也会被纳入2007年底他在圣保罗的装置作品《幻想曲》。这是一列歌剧鬼魂列车，其目的是将歌剧赶出歌剧领域，以此确保歌剧的生存。

柏林爱乐乐团2018年拜罗伊特音乐会。

A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl's advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, drops his "white" disguise, and launches a wild and bitter counterattack on her and on the entire white race. Written by alfiehitchie

《荷兰人》的故事设定在纽约的地铁上，主要围绕一位富裕的黑人男子和一位迷人的白人女子之间的相遇展开。两人在一场充满性暗示的猫鼠游戏中斗智斗勇，最终以暴力结局收场。

The saga, which unfolds over several years, kicks off in Flanders in 1568. Peasants, rebelling against Spanish rule, are sacking churches. One such gang, carrying the huge head of a statue taken from a church, stumbles onto land owned by a farmer, Nettelneck, when it's attacked by Spaniards. Only one Dutchman escapes, and after he and Nettelneck's wife make love, the result is a son, who is raised on Nettelneck's farm (for some reason dominated by a huge cesspool) but who is always an outsider. Some years later, a wandering Italian minstrel, Campanelli, who witnessed the massacre and the coupling, returns to tell the boy his father is alive and sailing at sea on his ship (though he's actually long dead); he also reveals that his father is able to fly. Later still, the boy, now a man, leaves the farm with his sweetheart, Lotte, in search of his flying father. The film paints a dark and cruel picture of medieval times, alternating between grim and crass (and gross) realism and almost pythonesque farce. People are mostly ugly, stupid and mean, everything from the farm to a grounded ship or an asylum/prison is covered in mud and excrements. An uncompromising, ambitious and probably very personal film.