Tuesday, January 25, 2011

I can't bare to let people think that the post below is the real impression they should have of the Wolf's Glen Scene from Weber's Der Freischutz. So here's the second half of it in a great performance with the vocal score tacked onto the video so you can read along with the music, text and stage directions. This is probably better than any staging. Like so much theater out of High Romanticism, it probably works best in your imagination anyway. I don't think anybody (except maybe Wagner) would claim Der Freischutz as one of the great masterpieces of civilization, but Holy Crap it's cool as hell. It's probably best to think of this as comic book fiction or pulp opera for 19th century Germany.

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