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 ...

MELBOURNE Opera has nudged into new territory and notched up one of its greatest successes with this new production of Der Freischutz(The Marksman). Last seen in Melbourne in 1969, it has returned ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Der Freischütz – that wondrous fusion of rhapsodic melody, folksy narrative and romantic sentiment – remains a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Listening to this zestful rendition of Weber’s “romantic opera”, you might conclude that the man conducting it was in ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Der Freischutz (The Marksman), a gothic horror opera long dismissed outside Germany as ludicrous, has ridden changing entertainment ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sally Wilson as Agathe and Jason Wasley as Max in the Melbourne Opera production of Der Freischütz at the Athenaeum Theatre.Credit: Emma ...

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 ...

Opera Atelier’s first venture into German Romantic opera, Der Freischutz (The Marksman), is an impressive work, both musically and visually, though it doesn’t always hit the bull’s-eye. Artistic ...