Weber: Der Freischütz (NAWM 126), Wolf's Glen scene, end

[sirmercutio99]

6:36 and my hula-hoops.

[sirmercutio99]

5:12 So that's what happened to my Halloween spider.

[TheChronicsarcasm]

Outstanding! Perfect! Bravo!

..... That should cause confusion

[MadMajor1944]

The lack of highly advanced special effects really brings out the primitive-esque and basic usage of stage props bringing the viewer, in regards to this particular orchestration of the opera, closer to what the original might have looked like.

[jeanpi314159]

Je trouve la partie musicale très bien interprétée .Quant à la mise en scène , je l'apprécie . Elle me sembe très suggestive , glauque ; c'est une interprétation de la morbidité inhérente à l'imaginaire des personnages du Freischütz . Kaspar a participé à des massacres ( Magdeburger Tanz ) ; le Freischütz , sous un dehors champêtre , est né aussi des batailles ( Waterloo) .Il y avait un peu de ça dans l'Allemagne d'après 1945 (même en 1970).Une campagne faussement paisible après des horreurs .

[windstorm1000]

absurd scenery/costumes---its supposed to be spooky and creepy--this is just plain strange with this freak show of costumed people--nothing to do with the plot--just bad German expressionism--not suppose to be here. Like if Wozzeck wandered over from another stage. The production team looks like they spent 50 cents on the set and costumes. TERRIBLE. Aren't there better clips that someone can get of this divine scene in a divine opera????

[papoocanada]

typical corny european staging......

[spectre720]

I disagree,

corny is overdone big budget americanized supershows

[paintballKid545]

@spectre720 Okay you have never seen american produced opera watch il trovatore from met opera with Pavarotti and you will never say that again

[futuristfood]

trip out!

[MichaelWoss]

Carl Maria Weber FTW!!!!!

[mrmaroonmonkey]

Where and when was this performance?

[Blaquieres]

Il est dommage qu'une mise en scène aussi indigeste accompagne cette musique ... il s'agit tout de même de l'une des oeuvres cléf du répertoire lyrique.

[ichbineinGENIE]

i like zamiel!

[djminimoto]

I have this part of Der Freischutz on a dvd from The Teaching Company. The course is called How to listen to and understand great music, 3rd edition.

[eltfell]

Die Spinne hat einen gewissen Niedlichkeitsfaktor.

[swingitwithme1]

one of the most important operas ever written. the individual torn between good and bad, never as evident as in the development of the germans in the 20th century. what a cheap staging regarding the real evel a person can be confronted with! a good example how uninspired and helpless nowadays "artists" can be!

[windstorm1000]

@swingitwithme1 You are so right--a truly less than inspiring production--a disservice to this divine opera. Can't anyone post anything better than this schist/crap??? c'mon German people!!!

[Chrshonore]

got to admit, the shadow of the descending spider is pretty terrifying, even if the spider itself is less so

[califonia21]

what´s about Zamiel? Isn´t he just hot? uha!

[Rahskir]

Ok. Thank you for putting up the NAWM number... haha this was my music history hmwk tonight. just... wow, thanks. totally nerdy of you, but nice to us school of music types...

[sirmercutio99]

Absoulutly. I borrowed it from the library and I thought it was the worst think I have ever scene. Would love to find a decent videorecording of the opera.

[Nightfighter74]

this is a production from the 80s by director Peter Zadec. Is was and is indeed beloved by the public, as well as by the critics. I guess you should see it life - it's amazing. That's the reason, they put it again on the plan this year although there have been new productions since.

[sirmercutio99]

You mean they still do this same production today?

[Nightfighter74]

Yes, it is again on the agenda in Stuttgart. But it has not been in the last 12 years. I have been there yesterday (July 2nd) again. Not only the stage is decorated, but also the foyiers and the exteriour with scenes of hunting and the german forest.

By the way: Stuttgart has been "Opera-house-of-the-year for six times in the last twelve years ... !!

[sirmercutio99]

I sure Stuttgart opera is great, but this production is kinda weird. I would think if they revived the opera they would do a new production.

[karzanka]

That's quite interesting what you say about the foyer. Achim Freyer who directed and designed the opera did a similar thing in his first "Die Zauberfloete" in Hamburg in 1982, where the animals with Tamino roam around the public space before the opera begins.

Correction: Der Freischuetz was staged at Stuttgart in 1999 and 2000.

[srg2457]

As I was watching it I thought, the problem with seeing it like this is that you can see the strings, so to speak - whereas I can imagine that seeing it live it would be excellent. And then I see that you'd said that it was amazing live. Very enjoyable!

[karzanka]

The visible strings might have been intentional since Achim Freyer is Bertolt Brecht's student.

[karzanka]

Not really. This is Achim Freyer's [he just recently stage the Ring at the LA Opera] production done in 1980 in Stuttgart State Opera. Everyone was shocked and the audience the most. Many of them even wrote to the opera administration in protest. For example, "Was dieser Achim Freyer aus dieser echt deutschenromantischen Oper aber gemacht hat, ist schlichtweg ein Skandal... Weber haette sich im Grabe umgedreht haetter.."

[urbild]

I'm just glad they got rid of the rabbit with the huge schlong from the beg. scene. Very distracting.

[raynmari]

anyone know the opera company?

[ptels]

Stuttgart Opera

[cw810510]

I will see it tomorrow in Stuttgart - lets see if they can still do it ;-)

[ptels]

Cool! Enjoy!!

[CorycianMuse]

Brilliant. Thanks so much for posting :)

[zicke1994]

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