Maximilian Schmitt/Polina Pasztircsák/Max Urlacher/Freiburg Baroque O/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, two CDs) A studio-made recording of the 1821 German opera that influenced generations of composers ...

Eine neue Folge von Weltgeschichte vor der Haustür von Thomas Hartmann und Conny Wolter Kaum eine Oper hat zu ihrer Zeit ...

Neben der wunderbaren volksliedhaften Musik brillierte "Der Freischütz vom Thüringer Wald" mit seiner gruseligen und ...

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 ...

'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, ...

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 ...

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.

Whether you're on the trolleybus on the way to the performance, having a cigarette before the premiere or waiting in the toilet queue, with this quick check you'll be perfectly prepared for the ...

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 ...