Wagner's The Flying Dutchman - Steen

In Senta’s ballad, she tells of the Flying Dutchman,‘the Wandering Jew of the ocean’, whose picture hangs in her Norwegian home and has mesmerised her. He has been condemned by the devil to sail on forever, but is allowed to land every seventh year to search for a woman who will honour her marriage vow to be faithful until death. Such a woman, if found, will be the means of his redemption. That will be Senta.