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Revision as of 08:57, 22 May 2014
A German opera, with spoken dialogue, in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber, with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. (Op. 77, J. 277). First performed on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin.
Translations and adaptations
It is usually translated as The Marksman or The Freeshooter
Performance history in South Africa
1831: Performed under the title Der Freischütz, or The Seventh Bullet by All the World's a Stage under the management of Mr Booth in the African Theatre 29 October, 1831. As afterpiece they had Animal Magnetism, or A Cure for the Hydrophobia (Inchbald)
Repeated on 17 December, 1831 with as afterpieces The Lawyer in the Sack and The Spectre Bridgroom (Moncrieff).
According to Jill Fletcher (1991), this production marked the first indigenous production of an opera in the true sense.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Freisch%C3%BCtz
Bosman, 1928: pp 218,
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