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 ...

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 ...

2026 commemorates 200 years following the death of Carl Maria von Weber, a decisive figure in the development of German opera in the Romantic era. The American Symphony Orchestra performs the composer ...

What a romantic night! Well, this piece is considered the first German Romantic opera after all. The show at the Wroclaw Opera House is easy to watch, even for people not used to the (German) opera.

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Virginia Opera, staging a German opera hardly ever performed in the United States, boldly makes it its own, setting this tale of the supernatural in the first half of the 19th century in America.

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 ...

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 ...