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 ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Listening to this zestful rendition of Weber’s “romantic opera”, you might conclude that the man conducting it was in ...
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 ...
Although his reputation rests principally on Der Freischütz, (Berlioz was a fan), Carl Maria von Weber was an outstanding ...
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 ...
Strictly speaking, this was Le Freyschütz, and not Weber's history-making opera as we usually hear it. John Eliot Gardiner conducted his soloists, chorus and the period instruments of the Orchestre ...
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 ...
Because the University of Houston has some "baby dramatic sopranos and baby dramatic tenors," Moores Opera Center director Buck Ross can give Houston opera fans a spring bonus: Carl Maria von ...
Now, with the synching of sound and picture at a sophisticated level (2010s), producer/director Jens Neubert comes up with a ‘new’ concept – ‘film opera’. He makes an on-location movie of Der ...
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