1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center 2 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More What a romantic ...
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 ...
The production is directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. He has spent the last 20 years cultivating a reputation as an enfant terrible. The result, ironically, is that he has developed a clearly ...
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 ...
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 ...
When it comes to German romantic opera, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of Carl Maria von Weber. “It’s the start of everything,” says Stephen Lawless, director of the Virginia Opera’s version ...
Because the University of Houston has some "baby dramatic sopranos and baby dramatic tenors," Moores Opera Center director Buck Ross can give Houston opera fans a spring bonus: Carl Maria von ...