Das nennt man Wetterglück. Goss es gegen Ende der Indoor-Eröffnungspremiere des “Œdipe” am Mittwoch aus vollen Kannen, so war das Wasser am Donnerstag bei der Freiluft-Wiederaufnahme von Carl Maria ...

Knapp daneben ist nicht immer vorbei: Nach mehr als zehnjähriger Pause ist Carl Maria von Webers "Der Freischütz" wieder an die Volksoper zurückgekehrt. Marco Arturo Marelli, der dort seine Karriere ...

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 ...

Ihre Welt ist ein dunkler Schacht, den jemand vor Jahren kreisrund in die Erde gebohrt hat. Die Wände sind schwarz, verkarstet und rissig. Abgebrochene Äste liegen herum. Licht kommt nur von ganz ...

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 ...

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.

Vasil Garvanliev is excited about playing his first bad guy in opera. And what a bad guy: as the character Kaspar in Opera Atelier’s Der Freischütz (The Marksman), which opened Oct. 27 at the Elgin ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Music news every morning. Heartbeat Opera has won its place towards the top of the New York indie-opera scene with two kinds of boldness ...

'Der Freischütz' (or 'The Free Hunters') is Weber's most performed opera, with music rich in hunting horn melodies and horse-driven rhythms. At first dark and ominous, then breakneck and turbulent, ...