Weber's Freischütz minus the magic at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

By Mark Pullinger, 20 October 2019

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Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 19 October 2019

Weber, Der Freischütz

Cie 14:20

Laurence Equilbey, Conductor

Raphaël Navarro, Director

Clément Debailleul, Set Designer, Director

Siegrid Petit-Imbert, Costume Designer

Johanni van Oostrum, Agathe

Chiara Skerath, Ännchen

Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Max

Vladimir Baykov, Kaspar

Anas Séguin, Kilian

Daniel Schmutzhard, Ottokar

Christian Immler, A Hermit

Thorsten Grümbel, Kuno

Clément Dazin, Dancer

Valentine Losseau, Dramaturgy

Aragorn Boulanger, Choreography

Elsa Revol, Lighting Designer

Insula orchestra

accentus

Frank Markowitsch, Choirmaster / chorus director

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.