Charles Castronovo in La bohème on the Metropolitan Opera / Photograph: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
The American Symphony Orchestra below Leon Botstein brings Berlioz’s adaptation of Weber en français– Le Freyschütz — to Carnegie Corridor subsequent week. And although one encounters it extra often in Germany, Der Freischütz has not been heard in any format in New York Metropolis since 2019’s Heartbeat Opera manufacturing and the Met hasn’t touched it since 1972.
In anticipation of the uncommon alternative to listen to this vital rating Stateside, Parterre Field options American tenor Charles Castronovo singing Max’s aria from Weber’s model of his personal opera in a efficiency recorded final spring in Berlin. Whereas Castronovo primarily makes his profession in Europe now — only a few days in the past he was the Gustavo to Anna Netrebko’s Amelia in Berlin — he was seen in New York in 2023 in Un ballo in maschera about which Parterre Field critic Eli Jacobson remarked, “He didn’t drop the ball however he wasn’t the glittering belle of the ball both. He was simply type of there – a visitor at his personal celebration.”
Weber: Der Freischütz, “Nein, länger trag’ ich nicht die Qualen… Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen”
Charles Castronovo
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Philharmonie Berlin
5 Might 2025
Broadcast
