Lost souls, spirits, magic bullet: such is the fantasy world of the first Romantic German opera, composed by Carl Maria Weber in 1821. This lyrical drama owes a lot to Beethoven’s Fidelio and seems to announce Wagner’s Tannenhauser. A musical treasure for which the Compagnie 14-20, leader of the new magic music movement creates a visual and sensorial setting that invites the audience to question how it relates to the invisible and the subconscious.
Staging and lights
OLIVIER FREDJ
Musical direction
Costumes
SIEGRID PETIT-IMBERT
Max
Agathe
Ännchen
Kaspar
Eremit and Samiel's voice
Ottokar
SAMUEL HASSELHORN
Kilian
Kuno
THORSTEN GRÜMBEL
Samiel
"Just a hop, skip and a Sprung down the Linke Wienzeile, the Theater an der Wien recently presented a semi-staged version by Olivier Fredj which was much more faithful to Johann Friedrich Kind's creepy folk-lore libretto. With limited set-structure, but utilizing period costumes and clever lighting, Anglo / French Fredj adroitly managed to capture the Satanic sorcery of the narrative with plenty of scary images plus hunting rifles which actually fired. "
Jonathan Sutherland, OPERAWIRE
Stage Director