FULL Der Freischütz vom Thüringer Wald Documentary Germany 2018
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Der Freischütz vom Thüringer Wald
- Composer: Weber Carl Maria von
- Libretto: Friedrich Kind Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Germany
- Recorded: 2018
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: N/A
- Conductor: N/A
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Heidi Mühlenberg
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: mdr
- TV Director: Heidi Mühlenberg
- Date Published: 2018
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The opera “Der Freischütz” was the most beautiful and fairytale-like of all operas, the critics cheered when Carl-Maria von Weber (born November 18th or 19th, 1786 – June 5th, 1826) premiered it on June 18th, 1821 in the Royal Schauspielhaus Berlin. In addition to the music, the work shined with its gripping story, which takes place deep in the Bohemian Forest. But in reality the legendary Wolfsschlucht was in Thuringia, more precisely in the Hainichwald, where the legend of the Freischütz (“Elbel”) has been circulating since the Thirty Years’ War. The presenter Janine Strahl-Oesterreich wants to prove this on her forays through forests and fields, through armories and archives in Central Germany.
In the end it is clear: It was not only the Hainich Forest that was the inspiration for the “Freischütz”, but also the hunting weapons from Suhl, the Düben Heath in Saxony and a young Leipzig councilor who secretly wrote ghost stories.
Libretto: Friedrich Kind (*March 4, 1768 – June 24, 1843)
based on “Der Freischütz” from Volume 1, Ghost Book (1810) by Johann August Apel (*September 17, 1771 – August 9, 1816)