The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre presents Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz. This opera is a jewel of the German Romantic opera. From the first performances, which took place in June 1821 in Berlin, the opera was accompanied by unprecedented success. Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, after visiting the premiere, wrote about a new era in the history of German opera: Nothing more important has been written for the German opera since Mozart than Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and this “Freischütz”…
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The production was conceived even before the dramatic period that all of humanity is still going through – the COVID-19 pandemic. When me, Yuri Ustinov and Fabrice Bollon were talking about the fact that a human being is more and more moving into the virtual world, and sometimes mixes the virtual and real worlds up, we could not imagine that soon we would leave for this virtual world for many months. The heroes of our production are real people, our contemporaries, who are engaged in the development of computer games. They come up with “Der Freischütz” game. It seems to us that this opera could talk how the online and offline worlds collide and could give us an answer on “Are they interchangeable?..”
Alexander Titel,
Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera