Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes (till 21:30)

The performance has 1 intermission

Ticket prices before the discount: from US$ 189 to US$ 195 per ticket

Der Freischütz is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin.

"Der Freischütz" is the pearl of German romantic opera. From the first performances, which took place in June 1821 in Berlin, the opera was accompanied by unprecedented success. The famous poet and theorist of romanticism Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann wrote: "With this new great work, the composer erected a monument to himself that will create an era in the history of German opera ...". That was absolutely true - with the advent of "Der Freischütz" in Germany, the dominance of Italian opera ended and the formation of the German romantic national opera began. Wagner wrote: "He (Weber) did not want to agree that the source of true melody must be sought in Rossini's melody ..."

Alexander Titel: “The production was conceived even before the dramatic period that all of humanity is still going through - the COVID-19 pandemic. When the artist and conductor and I were talking about the fact that a person is more and more moving into the virtual world, and sometimes confuses the virtual and real worlds, we could not imagine that soon we would leave for this very virtual world for many months. The heroes of our performance are real people, our contemporaries, who are engaged in the development of computer games. They come up with the "Der Freischütz" game. It seems to us that the opera can "talk" about how the online and offline worlds collide as a result, are they interchangeable ... "