(Credit: Staatstheater Kassel / Marina Sturm) The Staatstheater Kassel has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is a look. Berg’s “Wozzeck” opens the season. Francesco Angelico conducts the production by Florian Lutz, while Mechthild Feuerstein is responsible for costumes. Premiere Date: Sep. 24, 2021 Next up is Puccini’s masterwork “Tosca.” The opera will be directed by Sláva Daubnerová and conducted by {…}
(Credit: Staatsoper Berlin official website / Marcus Ebener) Staatsoper unter der Linden has announced that it will end the 2020-21 season with a festival set to take place from June 13 until July 3, 2021. Puccini‘s opera “La fanciulla del West” will open the festival with the premiere scheduled for June 13. The showcase is set to star Anja Kampe {…}
(Credit: AE Ebener / Staatsoper Berlin official website) The Staatsoper unter der Linden and Komische Oper Berlin have announced closures until at least June 2021. Additionally, the Staatsoper unter der Linden has canceled productions of Carl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischütz” and Jörg Widmann’s “Babylon” in June, as well as Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” in July 2021. The opera house stated {…}
(Credit: Bayerische Staatsoper official website) The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced that it will close until at least Feb. 28, 2021. Per the statement on the company’s website, Bernd Sibler, Minister for Arts of the State of Bavaria, and the directors of all Bavarian state theaters agreed to discontinue theater operations in February. “With the extended suspension of events, we are {…}
(Credits: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony / Chris Singer / Rebecca Fay / Artists Management Zürich official website) The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced the full slate for its 2020-21 free streaming season. Here is the look. Walter Braunfels’ “Die Vögel” will feature Wolfgang Koch, Günter Papendell, Caroline Wettergreen, Emily Pogorelc, Yajie Zhang, Eliza Boom, Bálint Szabó, Theodore Platt, George Vîrban, Charles Workman, and {…}
(Source: Heartbeat Opera Facebook) In the canon of German Romantic opera, Weber’s “Der Freischütz” is about as conventional as they come. The opera, which is loosely based on a traditional German folktale, features hardy woodsmen, drinking songs, enchanted bullets, demonic incantations, a melancholic male hero, a pure virtuous maiden, and a mysterious hermit. Thus, it was ripe for the kind {…}
“Oberon” is an opera in English by Carl Maria von Weber. The work had its world premiere on April 12, 1826, just two months before the composer’s death. Weber was actually advised by his doctor against taking on the opera and the composer actually went to great lengths to learn English so that he could follow the libretto. It ultimately {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment we will take a {…}
Carl Maria von Weber wrote a number of operas, but only a select few have made it into the books of posterity. Shining brightest above these is “Der Freischütz,” the opera that had such a massive effect on the young Richard Wagner. The opera had its premiere on June 18, 1821, and has had a mixed life in the repertoire. {…}