Once again, the Bard Summer Music Festival has lived up to its reputation for giving classical music lovers a chance to hear lesser known or underperformed gems of the operatic repertory. This summer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are reasons for the relative obscurity of Weber’s Euryanthe. The libretto is full of cringe-inducing ...

Composer Carl Maria von Weber is pictured here in about 1820, two years before he wrote Euryanthe. ACT ONE: The opera opens in King Louis' castle. At a celebration of peace, Count Adolar sings a ...

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. This year's seven-week Bard SummerScape focuses on Franz Schubert, though, as is often the case with this imaginative festival, the staged opera production explores an ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) - Carl Maria von Weber’s “Euryanthe” will be presented by the 25th anniversary Bard Music Festival this summer in what the organization says is the opera’s first ...

Great singing, great music-making, shame about the opera. Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe is a German medieval fable performed infrequently and now, for the first time, at Glyndebourne. Its real ...

1 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) won his greatest success with Der Freischütz, the opera with which he established Germany's own ...

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt’s career divides neatly in two. A Berlin-born violinist and academic, he learnt the conductor’s trade in German opera houses in the years 1923‑45. Then the British occupying ...