Lutherstadt Eisleben
Look forward to the first musical surprise package of the new year! We promise you: the Harz Symphony Orchestra, under the as ever spirited baton of General Music Director Johannes Rieger, will spare you New Year’s resolutions once again this time too and instead set off a fireworks display of exquisite feel-good compositions by masterful composers. We would like to thank the Halberstadt Theatre Support Association for its kind support of the concert.
A single shot is to decide the marriage of the hunter’s assistant Max to his beloved Agathe. Afraid of failing, he is lured by the shady Kaspar into making a pact with dark powers in the Wolf’s Glen: six sure-fire magic bullets for him, but with the seventh the devil may strike down any victim he chooses. Carl Maria von Weber’s "Der Freischütz," premiered in 1821, is the epitome of German Romanticism in music and, alongside Wagner’s "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" and Beethoven’s "Fidelio," is regarded as the German national opera par excellence. No one before had made the intrusion of the supernatural and the eerie sound so evocative. Few operas have yielded so many melodies that entered the popular song repertoire as "Der Freischütz."
