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Gundula Janowitz, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Weber: Der Freischütz
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Viewers find themselves staring straight down the barrel of a gun, its gaping muzzle so large it appears very close to the eye. The dark background makes it impossible to see who might be holding the weapon. The starkness, immediacy, radicalism even of the cover for Carl Maria von Weber’s Romantic opera Der Freischütz are truly striking. The image was created in 1973 by Holger Matthies, a Hamburg-based artist known for his poster designs.
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- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)