About the event 'Der Freischütz'

Enjoy Carl Maria von Weber's Romantic opera Der Freischütz, with a libretto by Johann Friedrich Kind, in Vienna's Theater an der Wien.

"The marksman (Freischütz) has scored a bull’s eye,” wrote Carl Maria von Weber to his librettist Johann Friedrich Kind in 1821 in the aftermath of the opera’s dazzling premiere. He was to be proved right, because it was not long before Der Freischütz began packing one theatre after another. In fact, following further performances, it even turned into something resembling an acoustic epidemic. Conceived immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, this Romantic opera about fear of failure, crumbling conventions and woodland enchantment conjures up a fantasy world rich in symbols and eerie apparitions.

“Do not fail to see how, with this sinister main character, I am aided by the circumstance that half the opera is played in the dark,” said Weber, who uses tremendous melodic creativity, a rousing orchestra and motivic references in Der Freischütz to portray the victory over the powers of darkness.

Performed in German

Bertrand de Billy, Conductor
Stefan Ruzowitzky, Director
Renate Martin & Andreas Donhauser, Set designer
Nicole Fischnaller, Costume designer
Anton Maria Aigner, Dramatic advisor

Elza Van den Heever, Agathe
Mojca Erdmann, Ännchen
Falk Struckmann, Kaspar
Simon O’Neill, Max
Martin Snell, Kuno
Dominik Köninger, Kilian
Artur Korn, Eremit
Henk Neven, Ottokar
Karl Markovics, Samiel

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Chorus master: Erwin Ortner)

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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