The Emperor of a remote island marries the daughter of Keikobad, King of the Spirit Realm. As the daughter of Keikobad and a mortal woman, the girl was blessed with the magic power of transformation ...

Get a first look below! Die Frau ohne Schatten is, along with Richard Wagner's Ring cycle and Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens, among opera's most ambitious and exhilarating large-scale works for the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by What’s behind the strange emphasis on childlessness in “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” the Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera now at the Met? Look to the ancients.

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera launches its 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts on Dec. 7 with Richard Strauss’s epic fairy tale: “Die Frau ohne Schatten” – “The Woman Without a Shadow ...

One of the least successful operas in history received a revival at Westminster this week. ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ ...

San Francisco Opera's new production of Richard Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten" is an explosive three-plus hours of starry singing and orchestral playing, and bright visuals housed in David ...

An earthly Emperor has married the daughter of the spirit-god Keikobad. She lives as a mortal woman in all ways but one: she has no shadow. Her father sends a messenger commanding her to obtain one ...

In his book A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera, Peter Conrad writes, “Strauss tries to outwit history by being both Mozart and Wagner at once….Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919) began as ...