Romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber with German surtitles
The famous romantic opera "Der Freischütz" seems to have been made for the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. It was first performed at the Felsenbühne Rathen in 1956. And in 2023, in the new production by Manuel Schöbel, young Max learns to hunt from forester Kuno out of love for his daughter Agathe. And this time, too, he has to show his skills as a hunter in order to marry her. This time, too, he misses, again and again, until he desperately makes a pact with evil. And, as always, the opera ends well: Although the young man is banished for a year, Agathe and Max are saved.
Only this time it s almost too late: the landlady turns on the tap. The glasses are passed through the rows. They are only half full. It has to be quick. People raise their tankards to the sky, half full, half empty probably more. They lower their heads. The thicket grows.