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Carl Maria von Weber and his librettist Friedrich Kind fluctuate between ghost story, fairy tale, fortune play and interplay between heaven and hell. The plot: a diabolical ritual in the “Wolf's Glen” ...

Trying to giveCarl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischütz” (“The Marksman”) a contemporary twist is fraught with peril, since magic, omens and the power of the natural world are integral to this 1821 ...

Heartbeat Opera, the five-year-old indie company that specializes in radical reworkings of classics, is offering a contemporary makeover of Carl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischütz” (1821) at the Baruch ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Der Freischutz (The Marksman), a gothic horror opera long dismissed outside Germany as ludicrous, has ridden changing entertainment ...

Maximilian Schmitt/Polina Pasztircsák/Max Urlacher/Freiburg Baroque O/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, two CDs) A studio-made recording of the 1821 German opera that influenced generations of composers ...

Der Freischütz or The Freeshooter is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on June 18, 1821 at the Schauspielhaus ...

There’s something about Weber’s clash of earthy, beer-swilling, foot-stamping, deer-hunting peasants and gothic fantasy that seems to bring contemporary directors out in a conceptual rash. Better by ...

A love story with pastoral, folkloric and supernatural elements, composer Carl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischütz”, originally performed in 1821, was the first German Romantic opera. In 1973 it was ...

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