Set your controls for arte.tv.
The French TV arts channel will be broadcasting Robert Wilson's new production of Der Freischütz live from Baden-Baden on Monday 1 June - with simultaneous online streaming. And it's free!
Streaming begins at 6.30pm local time (5.30pm UK time) with interviews and backstage stuff, and the performance itself starts at 7pm (or 6pm here).
The production's costumes by Viktor & Rolf are spectacular even by operatic standards, featuring men dressed as trees, women dressed as bouquets, and gazillions of Swarovski crystals. In a programme at 10.30pm tonight (but sadly not online), Arte discuss the project with the designers.
teh crystals!
Bob Wilson yet again fails to embrace pictorial realism:
Lots more info, photos - even a full libretto - on Arte's website. And here's a video of rehearsal clips the Festspielhaus have put together:
and here's one with Viktor and Rolf about the costumes:
