Weber: Der Freischütz, singspiel en trois actes (Berlin, 1821) Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, René Jacobs (2 CDs)

Delving into black magic and folk culture, Weber created with Der Freischütz a new aesthetic that was to nourish the imaginative world of a whole generation of composers. René Jacobs has gone back to the sources of the initial project and here offers us a completely new reading of the very first German Romantic opera: the prologue initially conceived by the librettist is restored to its original place, giving due symbolic and structural weight to the character of the Hermit. A fascinating rediscovery!