A bullet made from the devil's forge — what could go wrong at your wedding?
In a village community that holds firm to archaic customs, the young hunter Max must pass a marksmanship test so he may marry his sweetheart, Agathe. Of all times now when his shooting has been very much below par! Carl Maria von Weber and his librettist Friedrich Kind fluctuate between ghost story, fairy tale, fortune play and interplay between heaven and hell.
Production
Tcherniakov's claustrophobic modern staging traps you with Max.
Score
Weber's 'Wolf's Glen' scene still invents horror music.
Acting
Ketelsen's Max unravels with sweaty desperation.
Director
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Weber's 1821 opera essentially invented German Romantic nationalism in music, though Hitler's regime later weaponized its folklore imagery.
The 'Freischütz' legend of magic bullets appears in everything from 'The Black Rider' to 'Supernatural' — this staging's fluorescent-lit bureaucracy is pure Tcherniakov.
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