2-January... Premiering of Richard Wagner's Opera "The Flying Dutchman"...


The Deutsche Post of the GDR (German Democratic Republic - East Germany) released the stamp in the year 1963 to commemorate the German composer, Richard Wagner and his opera "The Flying Dutchman", which was premiered on this day in the year 1843...

The East German stamp features Richard Wagner and a scene from his opera, The Flying Dutchman, in which Senta casts herself from a cliff as the Dutchman's ship puts out to sea... 

This stamp can be collected under the themes:

(a) Composers...
(b) Operas...
(c) Ship... 

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