UBS Soundscapes: Weber

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Libretto by Friedrich Kind

Performers

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis	Conductor
London Symphony Chorus
Christine Brewer	Soprano	Agathe
Sally Matthews	Soprano	Ännchen
Simon O'Neill	Tenor	Max
Lars Woldt	Baritone	Kaspar

Tickets £10 £15 £19.50 £27 £35

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Der Freischütz: the magic bullet that fired German Romantic opera

Mark Pullinger, 2nd March

After Carl Maria von Weber's masterpiece, German opera would never be the same.

Colin Davis conducts Weber's Der Freischütz at the Barbican

Capriccio, 19th April

While Weber is widely acknowledged as being of historic importance as the link in the German operatic tradition between Beethoven and Wagner, his operas are rarely staged in England, and even in concert remain a relative novelty. Curious because this is music of the utmost vitality and beauty and at times he surely borders on genius.

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