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 ...

Virginia Opera, staging a German opera hardly ever performed in the United States, boldly makes it its own, setting this tale of the supernatural in the first half of the 19th century in America.

Initially it is just for the cameras, but when the doors finally open, it will be ready to go. The production is directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. He has spent the last 20 years cultivating ...

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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 ...

Fortunately concert halls (in London at any rate) have stepped enthusiastically into the breach, and after last night’s latest concert outing – an imported performance by Laurence Equilbey’s ...

Weber was at the forefront of the rise of German Romantic opera and sought to dethrone Rossini from his position as the leading operatic composer in Europe In his breakthrough and most popular opera ...

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