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 ...

With brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and hellish paintings of Hieronymus Bosch as backdrops, the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center dived into the fantasy world of 19th-century ...

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 ...

Carl Maria von Weber and his librettist Friedrich Kind fluctuate between ghost story, fairy tale, fortune play and interplay between heaven and hell. The plot: a diabolical ritual in the “Wolf's Glen” ...

With its somewhat creaky plot involving magic bullets and a huntsman who enters into a pact with the devil to win a shooting contest and, thereby, a bride, Carl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischuetz” ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. This weekend, March 21 and 22, Utopia Opera presents the rarely-performed ...

What has replaced the forest as a common domain for allegorical storytelling, supernatural atmosphere and levelling retribution? For German director Philipp Rosendahl, the answer is Nordic Noir. His ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

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 ...

'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, ...