COMPANY: Naxos
CATEGORY: Blu-ray
COMPOSER: Carl Maria Friedrich von Weber

Product: 730099009263

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Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Myung-Wha Chung, Matthias Hartmann
Julia Kleiter (Agathe), Eva Liebau (Aennchen), Michael Konig (Max), Gunther Groissbock (Kaspar), Michael Kraus (Ottokar), Frank van Hove (Kuno), Stephen Milling (Hermit), Till Von Orlowsky (Kilian)

Weber was at the forefront of the rise of German Romantic opera and sought to dethrone Rossini from his position as the leading operatic composer in Europe. In his breakthrough and most popular opera Der Freischutz (‘The Marksman’) composed in 1821, he succeeded in his aim of establishing a truly German form. Turning to the folklore and folk songs of his native land he took a story of a marksman who makes a pact with the Devil, vesting it with powerful intensity – not least in the famous Wolf’s Glen scene – and an astonishing control of orchestral colour and atmosphere.