What a romantic night! Well, this piece is considered the first German Romantic opera after all. The show at the Wroclaw Opera House is easy to watch, even for people not used to the (German) opera.

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 ...

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.

2026 commemorates 200 years following the death of Carl Maria von Weber, a decisive figure in the development of German opera in the Romantic era. The American Symphony Orchestra performs the composer ...

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 ...

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I wasn’t planning to see “Der Freischütz” (The Marksman) on Saturday night. A seminal work of German Romanticism that was hugely influential on German opera, it is seldom staged in the United States, ...

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 ...

The production is directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. He has spent the last 20 years cultivating a reputation as an enfant terrible. The result, ironically, is that he has developed a clearly ...

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 ...