Word: hauschild
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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Would that the opening night's performance had been worthy of both the moment and the surroundings. Instead, it was prosaically conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and, with the exception of Bass-Baritone Theo Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe...
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