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The #WolfsGlen in the _Freischütz_ by #CMvWeber is an exemplary terrible place where uncanny actions take place.
The librettist Friedrich Kind garnishes the gorge with two thunderstorms, owl, raven, bats, & a dead tree.
Textbook of _Der Freischütz_ by Friedrich Kind - manuscript prepared for C.M.v.Weber: Vierter Auftritt.
 No. 10. Finale. Furchtbare Waldschlucht, größtentheils mit Schwarzholz bewachsen, von hohen Gebirgen rings umgeben. Von einem derselben stürzt ein Waßerfall. Der Vollmond scheint bleich. Zwei Gewitter von entgegengesetzter Richtung sind im Anzuge. Weiter vorwärts ein vom Blitz zerschmetterter, ganz verdorrter Baum, inwen - dig faul, so daß er zu glimmen scheint. Auf der andern Seite auf einem knorrigen Aste eine große Eule mit feurig rädernden Augen. Auf andern Bäumen Raben und anderes Waldgevögel. Fledermäuse schwirren umher.
 Source: https://edition.freischuetz-digital.de/?uri=xmldb:exist:///db/apps/contents/librettoSources/freidi-librettoSource_KA-tx4.xml [ No. 10 Finale 4th Act A terrible woodland glen largely planted with pines, and surrounded by high mountains. A waterfall rushes down from one of them. The full moon shines wanly. Two thunderstorms are approaching from two different directions. Nearer to us a tree struck by lightening and withened, decayed inside so that it seems to glow. On a gnarled branch at the other side sits a huge owl with fiery, circling eyes. Crows and other woodbirds on other trees.] 19th century print with stage design for the Wolf's Glen scene, as prepared for the performance in Weimar 1822 by Carl Wilhelm Holdermann, figures by Carl August Schwerdgeburth. Aquatinta: Karl Wilhelm Lieber. Black and white graphic print. Night scene of the wooded glen with rocks, some of them seem to own distorted faces, dead wood like demons, all eerily lit from various sides by the unseen full moon, lightnings, and the fire at the bottom of the gorge, where Max & Kaspar cast the bullets. Owl, waterfall, various ghostlike appearances: skeleton and hunter on horseback, stags & boars. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Design_for_Act2_(Wolf%27s_Glen)_of_%27Der_Freisch%C3%BCtz%27_1822_Weimar_-_NGO4p1115.jpg
February 4, 2026 at 12:25 PM