Organization

Lighting designer

Rainer Casper

Musical assistance and post conducting

Peter Schedding

Stage director

Ersan Mondtag

Conductor

Mario Hartmuth

Costume designer

Teresa Vergho

Set designer

Nina Peller

Dramaturge

Till Briegleb

Chorus master

Marco Zeiser Celesti

Singer

Soprano

Doris Neidig

Four bridesmaids

Ann-Christin Förste

Sabine Roppel

Tae Ozaki

Anna Sorokina

Clare Tucker

Jürgen Kolb

Spoken

Jonathan Stolze

Samiel

Baritone

Illyeol Park

Ottokar

Bass

Sam Taskinen

Kuno

Margrethe Fredheim

Agathe

Emma McNairy

Ännchen

Filippo Bettoschi

Caspar

Tenor

Mirko Roschkowski

Eric Laporte

Magnus Piontek

A Hermit

Kilian

Catherina Paz Cartes Alarcon

Dorothea Herbert

Staatstheater Kassel

Der Freischütz, op. 77 -  (The Marksman)

Kassel

Germany

Opernhaus

Der Freischütz Weber

Public

The Marksman

Approved

The director Ersan Mondtag talks about the challenges and special features of his opera production "Der Freischütz", which will celebrate its premiere on February 12, 2022 in the opera house. Der Freischütz Romantic opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber based on a libretto by Friedrich Kind Musical direction: Mario Hartmuth Musical assistance and post-conducting: Peter Schedding Director: Ersan Mondtag Stage design: Nina Peller Costumes: Teresa Vergho Lighting design: Rainer Casper Lighting: Jürgen Kolb Dramaturgy: Till Briegleb Choir: Marco Zeiser Celesti Direction: Ariane Kareev

INTERVIEW // with director Ersan Mondtag

The premiere of Freischütz took place in 1821 at the reopening of the Berlin theater by Schinkel and was greeted frenetically as the first German national opera  . Since then, the popular work has been critically questioned by the director as intensively and in a variety of ways as otherwise only Wagner operas. Because the dramatic problem of Friedrich Kind's libretto, which has to be solved again and again, is the schematic opposites. The good and pious people of the rural society stand in absolute contrast to the irrationally unleashed of the Wolfsschlucht and the  wild hunt. The men are whole guys with guns in hand (or they are supposed to be), the women naive females with intuitions who only long for marriage. Good and bad are just as clearly defined as honor and dishonor. And the entire social and political hierarchy of a princely state immediately after the Thirty Years' War is never seriously discussed.
 

The literary origin of the material in a collection of horror tales, which also inspired Mary Shelley's  Frankenstein and the first vampire novel in world literature by John Polidori, as well as historical parallels to the great political and economic upheavals at the time the opera was written, open up a wide range of possibilities to deal with this To transform naive fairy tales of the free balls into a contemporary drama about fear, dreams and the uncanny. 

The internationally acclaimed director Ersan Mondtag is returning to Kassel for this production, where his first work, Tyrannis , was created in 2015  , which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen.

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