Certainly this new "Dutchman" - the company's third in the years since it retired the vivid and controversial Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production of the 1970s and '80s - has been a star-crossed ...

Press Photos / Noel Webley IISailors cheer their return to land in "The Flying Dutchman." Opera Grand Rapids' production uses lights and projections to create settings, such as the ship's sails.