Vasil Garvaliev as Kaspar. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
Hey Man, Nice Shot!
by Shannon Christy
@schristy79
When Opera Atelier’s Co-Artistic Director, Marshall Pynkoski, came out and said this is the most excited he had been since 1991, the audience broke out in laughter. It was not a joke. He was excited because the Opera Atelier, he proclaims, “is taking a giant step in a different direction” and their production of the Romantic period opera Der Freischütz (The Marksman) is the first step in that direction. Apparently the excitement had spread throughout every element of the cast creating a work that hits its mark in achieving the Opera Atelier’s objective of creating historically informed period works, which take their own place in history.
