Wednesday 15 June 2016

97 - Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz


This gothic opera contains some wonderful chromatic music, particularly in the famous Wolf Glen scene, as the forces of evil oversee the casting of the magic bullets... Today it is unfortunately rarely seen outside the German speaking world and it can be difficult to produce with its anachronistic dialogue and old fashioned morality... 

Here is an illustration of one of the first productions around the time of the opera's premiere in 1821... 

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