The Marksmann
PREMIERE 03/08/2007
Salzburger Festspiele
»Salzburg’s festival director Jürgen Flimm likes to explain his music-theatre dramaturgy to the city’s sponsors as follows: of four operas, one must count as a rediscovery, one should be a good Mozart, one something populist, and one destined for scandal. The latter role had been assigned to this Freischütz. But despite a couple of stray boos, it unfortunately turned out to be a huge success.«
»Salzburg’s festival director Jürgen Flimm likes to explain his music-theatre dramaturgy to the city’s sponsors as follows: of four operas, one must count as a rediscovery, one should be a good Mozart, one something populist, and one destined for scandal. The latter role had been assigned to this Freischütz. But despite a couple of stray boos, it unfortunately turned out to be a huge success.«
»Salzburg’s festival director Jürgen Flimm likes to explain his music-theatre dramaturgy to the city’s sponsors as follows: of four operas, one must count as a rediscovery, one should be a good Mozart, one something populist, and one destined for scandal. The latter role had been assigned to this Freischütz. But despite a couple of stray boos, it unfortunately turned out to be a huge success.«
The young hunter Max can only win his beloved Agathe by winning a test shooting and is persuaded by his friend Kaspar to cast free bullets “six of which hit without fail, but the seventh belongs to the devil”. (Carl Maria von Weber)
Falk Richter was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival to write a new version of the libretto and staged Weber’s opera, featuring Ignaz Kirchner as Samiel.
Musical direction // Markus Stenz
Director // Falk Richter
Stage design // Alex Harb
Costume design // Tina Kloempken
Lighting design // Olaf Freese
Video // Chris Kondek
Dramaturgy // Bernd Stegemann
Choreography // Simone Aughterlony
Choir // Andreas Schüller