Carl Maria von Weber, the early-19th-century German composer, wrote ten or so operas. But we know basically three of them, and those chiefly through their overtures, and a few arias. The operas I’m ...
The overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s opera “Der Freischütz” (“The Marksman”) calls up the dusky shadows and sylvan aromas of the German hinterland. It trumpets the glory of an autumn day spent ...
'Der Freischütz' (or 'The Free Hunters') is Weber's most performed opera, with music rich in hunting horn melodies and horse-driven rhythms. At first dark and ominous, then breakneck and turbulent, ...
With brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and hellish paintings of Hieronymus Bosch as backdrops, the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center dived into the fantasy world of 19th-century ...
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic in one of his favourite symphonies, Tchaikovsky's Manfred. In addition there is Weber's Overture Der Freischütz and Mahler songs performed by Alice ...
It would take a subtle mind to uncover any connection between an early-Romantic German overture, a sequence of Lewis Carroll settings by a contemporary Korean composer, and one of the more problematic ...
SHEBOYGAN - The Sheboygan Symphony invites all to its midwinter concert on Feb. 3 at the Weill Center, which will touch on nature in all its beauty and feature a local connection to a contemporary ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sally Wilson as Agathe and Jason Wasley as Max in the Melbourne Opera production of Der Freischütz at the Athenaeum Theatre.Credit: Emma ...