Met opera gets visionary new `Dutchman`
(WorldNews Entertainment)

NEW YORK (AP) - Francois Girard created quite a splash - literally - at the Metropolitan Opera seven years ago when he flooded the stage with fake blood for a scene in `Parsifal.` Now he`s back for another Wagner opera with a production dominated by a giant eye, a red dress, and 47 hanging ropes. The French-Canadian director is bringing the Met his vision of `Der Fliegende Holländer` (`The Flying Dutchman`), which tells of a sailor condemned to sail the seas for eternity unless he can find a woman willing to be faithful to him until death. He finds such a woman in the heroine, Senta, who is obsessed by a portrait of the Dutchman hanging in her home. In Girard`s interpretation, the focus of...