Opera in three acts
Words by Friedrich Kind
Music by Weber
Hunters, peasants, Invisible spirits
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted BY WILHELM FURTWANGLER
Producer, Giinther Rennert
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Aat 1
An open space in the Bohemian forest, in front of a tavern, about the year 1650
In 1817, when he was thirty, Weber said that he meant soon to set to work at a new opera which the well-known poet Friedrich Kind has written for me, the Jägersbraut, a very romantic, mysterious, beautiful work.' The title was changed later to Der Freischiitz, and the work, completed after many interruptions, was produced in Berlin on June 18, 1821, when it was a triumphant success.
It is interesting to recall that Weber, who was a cousin of Mozart's wife
Constanze, spent two years at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, when he was a boy; and while there he received instruction from Michael Haydn, who was Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
Harold Rutland