Die Frau Ohne Schatten A great "Norma" will still be a vocal triumph more than anything else, but a great staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's somewhat abstruse meditation on the ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten begins after happily-ever-after and ends as another ever-after begins—essentially, it’s an opera about the beginning of a middle.

“Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” a dense ode to fertility, may not sound appealing at first. But in this performance, the fairy tale comes movingly to life. Listen to this article · 5:15 min Learn more ...

Strauss’ Opera ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ Is a Bizarre Fever Dream You Can Stream Right Now Strauss' heavily symbolic masterpiece gleams in this video directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski.

“Die Frau ohne Schatten” premiered in 1919, in the wreckage of World War I, so the argument for the importance of children made very good sense in its time and place.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic in Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. See video highlights from the production.

Die Frau ohne Schatten. Audio not yet available. Elza van den Heever as the Empress in Strauss's "Die Frau ohne Schatten." ( Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera ) i. Dec 7, 2024 From WQXR. Post a ...

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 ...

Richard Strauss, who was born 150 years ago last month, is best-known for his tone poem "Also sprach Zarathustra," the opening bars of which were immortalized by Stanley Kubrick in "2001: A Space ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten is Richard Strauss’s most ambitious work, requiring enormous vocal and orchestral forces as well as elaborate stage effects ranging from waterfalls to singing fish.It’s ...

"Die Frau ohne Schatten" continues at 7 p.m. June 10, June 20, June 23 and June 28 at the War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. Tickets are $26 to $464.