Le Freischutz

Le Freischutz is an opera in three acts with a score by Carl-Maria von Weber and a libretto by Johann-Friedrichkind that was first translated into French by Sauvage and Castil-Blaze for presentation at the Théâtre-Lyrique de l’Odéon on 7 December 1824 under the title of Robin des bois. Seven years later, in 1831, it was staged in its original German form at the Opéra-Comique by a German groupe. The Opéra-Comique used the translation by Sauvage and Blaze when they decided to give Weber’s work in…