Weekend trip crossdressed: "The Flying Dutchman"

After the change of outfit – pants to LBD – there was a little time left to kill before heading to the Düsseldorf opera. And as the hotel had a – not very spectacular – rooftop bar, there was little better to do than to pay a visit. On the left, you can see a glimpse of the river Rhein, flowing north towards the Netherlands and the “Oberkasseler” bridge crossing it. The area below the bridge is the “old town” of Düsseldorf.

At the opera house …

… enjoying a drink before the performance.

I love this red blazer. It is a very, very bright red.

Let’s talk about what happened on stage that night. “The Flying Dutchman” is a legend about a ship’s captain who was cursed to stay on board of his ship, without being able to make a port or for the captain to decease. “Flying Dutchman” is the name of his ghost ship. The story is supposed to have originated in the 17^th century during the Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company and was first documented in 1790.

Richard Wagner’s opera „The Flying Dutchman“ is based on a novel by Heinrich Heine, in which a person attends a theatrical performance of “The Flying Dutchman” and relates to the captain, intending to save him. In the adaptation of this opera performed in Düsseldorf that night, it wasn’t a theatrical performance, but a visit to a movie theater – a scene that repeated tens of time during the performance, whereby spanning several years (I would say a decade or two) of the girl’s life, before she acted on trying to save the captain.

If this all sounds vaguely familiar to you, you might remember „Flying Dutchman“ as the name of the ship, on which Davy Jones was doomed to remain in Walt Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

And guess where Franzi headed after the opera – back to the wine bar from the night before to enjoy cheese, bread, and wine. I really like this photo, by the way. If you do as well, let me know why?