By Carl Maria von Weber

Daniel Snyder as Max
Emily Pulley as Agathe
Heather Buck as Ännchen
Andrew Funk as Kaspar

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Sam Helfrich

Friday, October 17, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:30 pm

To win a marksmanship contest and the hand of his beloved, a young ranger makes a deal with the dark side. Based on German folk legend, the story is set to foreboding, atmospheric music that pioneered the use of leitmotif in opera. From its famous overture to its excitiing conclusion, Der Freischütz is a seminal work of German Romanticism and was a strong influence on Richard Wagner.

Sung in German with projected English surtitles