Weber: Der Freischütz

Sara Jakubiak (Agathe), Christina Landshamer (Aennchen), Georg Zeppenfeld (Kaspar), Michael König (Max), Adrian Eröd (Ottakar), Albert Dohmen (Kuno), Andreas Bauer (Hermit), Sebastian Wartig (Kilian)

Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann

This is supple, carefully sifted music-making, beautifully paced...The vocal casting is as precise and well calculated as the overall approach but the production seems to nervous of the work... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016 More…

Release Date: 27th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: 733108
Label: C Major

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Weber: Der Freischütz

Semperoper Dresden, 2015
Sara Jakubiak (Agathe), Christina Landshamer (Aennchen), Georg Zeppenfeld (Kaspar), Michael König (Max), Adrian Eröd (Ottakar), Albert Dohmen (Kuno), Andreas Bauer (Hermit), Sebastian Wartig (Kilian)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
Christian Thielemann

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Staged by Axel Köhler

Axel Köhler’s production of Der Freischütz at the Dresden State Opera was described by Die Presse as “a minor miracle in Dresden”. In the words of the Salzburger Nachrichten, Köhler “scored a bulleye” with his sombre and satanic interpretation of Weber’s Romantic opera about love, temptation, souls sold to the Devil, obsession and faith. According to the Financial Times, Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle conjured up a sense of “mortal terror from the orchestra pit. […] Thielemann is in command of every detail. That makes for utterly gripping listening.”

Booklet - English, German, French

Running Time Total: 149 mins

Picture 16:9, HD

Sound DVD: DTS 5.0, PCM Stereo

Subtitles German (original language), English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

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January 2016

This is supple, carefully sifted music-making, beautifully paced...The vocal casting is as precise and well calculated as the overall approach but the production seems to nervous of the work itself to give the singers anything dynamic to do. Michael König...and the American soprano Sara Jakubiak are convincing presences and have voices ideally placed between the lyrical and the more heroic.

April 2016

The clean lyricism of Sara Jakubiak’s Agathe is combined with a dramatic quality that infuses her big scena ‘Leise, leise’ with expressive power; she makes something worthwhile, too, of the purely lyrical ‘Und ob die Wolke’, whose long, soaring lines find in her an eloquent exponent. Christina Landshamer, meanwhile, provides just the right sort of light-hearted vocalism for Aennchen.

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