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 ...

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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 ...

When it comes to German romantic opera, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of Carl Maria von Weber. “It’s the start of everything,” says Stephen Lawless, director of the Virginia Opera’s version ...

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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There’s a certain irony to the existence of a French adaptation of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischutz (“The Free Shooter”): this quintessentially Germanic opera was seen in its time (the 1820s) as ...