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Weber: Overture to the opera "Der Freischütz" | Ivor Bolton and the Dresden Festival Orchestra
The overture to Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" is regarded as a landmark of Romantic music. In musical form, it expresses an existential struggle between the idyll of nature, human despair and demonic forces.
The performance in this video took place on 28 April 2017 at the Kulturpalast Dresden and features the Dresden Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivor Bolton.
The opera "Der Freischütz," Op. 77, with a libretto by German dramatist Friedrich Kind, premiered on 18 June 1821 in Be