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 ...
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 ...
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 ...