A visit from the Nederland Dans Theater, ecstatically received on opening night, featured dancers that can handle any style, mood or mode, even in pursuit of the same theme — memory and regret — in each of two ballets.
Edgar Allan Poe himself enters the doomed mansion of the Usher family, in Gordon Getty’s canny setting of the famed story, heightening the dramatic impact.
The Flying Dutchman has highlights in the chorus and outstanding male leads, but the elements that anchor this Wagnerian opera and its spectural ship are still at sea.