CARL MARIA VON WEBER - (1786–1826)
OBERON, OR THE ELF KING‘S OATH
OPERA IN THREE ACTS, SUNG IN GERMAN LANGUAGE
Oberon – Clemens Kerschbaumer
Huon of Bordeaux – Mirko Roschkowski
Reiza – Dorothea Maria Marx
Sherasmin – Grga Peroš
Fatima – Marie Seidler
Puck – Dmitry Egorov
Narrator – Roman Kurtz
Choir and extra-choir of Stadttheater Gießen
Philharmonic Orchestra Gießen
Michael Hofstetter, conductor
For the specific atmosphere of Oberon Michael Hofstetter
found it crucial that the performance was
played on the period instruments Weber composed
for. In Giessen, he worked with four natural horns,
natural trumpets, finely tuned trombones and not least
flutes made of wood instead of metal. This produced
an inexhaustible wealth of acoustic colours, enabling
us sensually to experience what might really be meant
by the concept of ‘German Romanticism’ on the musical
level.