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 ...

During the 18th century, German opera faced an artistic crisis. Germany was not yet a unified nation, but a collection of independent states. While Italian opera had centuries of aristocratic support ...

Heartbeat Opera, the five-year-old indie company that specializes in radical reworkings of classics, is offering a contemporary makeover of Carl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischütz” (1821) at the Baruch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Axel Köhler’s production of Der Freischütz at the Dresden State Opera was described by Die Presse as “a minor miracle in Dresden”. In the words of the Salzburger Nachrichten, Köhler “scored a bulleye” ...