RICHARD STRAUSS DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN

Camilla Nylund Nina Stemme Evelyn Herlitzius Stephen Gould Wolfgang Koch Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper conducted by Christian Thielemann

staged by Vincent Huguet RICHARD STRAUSS DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN

Conductor Christian Thielemann Orchestra Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Under Christian Thielemann’s baton, the new production of Chorus Chor der Wiener Staatsoper Richard Strauss’ Frau ohne Schatten at the Vienna State Opera Chorus Master Thomas Lang becomes a much acclaimed musical highlight “with a top-class

The Emperor Stephen Gould protagonist quintet” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and a The Empress Camilla Nylund sensationally playing Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper. The The Nurse Evelyn Herlitzius opera, here in Vienna performed without any cuts, was described Barak Wolfgang Koch Barak’s Wife Nina Stemme by the composer himself as “the most beautiful and noble work” The One-Eyed Samuel Hasselhorn and received its world premiere on this very stage a century The One-Armed Marcus Pelzl ago. The story is complex, involving two couples – emperor and The Hunchback Thomas Ebenstein empress, and dyer and his wife – who reach a happy ending The Spirit Messenger Wolfgang Bankl The Voice of the Falcon, Guardian Maria Nazarova through self-knowledge and willpower. The cast with “three of of the Threshold of the Temple the greatest soprano stars of the Viennese operatic firmament” The Apparition of a Youth Benjamin Bruns (The New York Review of Books) is formidable: Camilla Nylund as A Voice from Above Monika Bohinec First Servant, Solo Voice, Ileana Tonca Empress, Nina Stemme as Dyer’s Wife and Evelyn Herlitzius as Voices of the Unborn Nurse. At their side tenor Stephen Gould, who sings “a fabulous Second Servant, Solo Voice, Mariam Battistelli emperor with accurate high notes” and baritone Wolfgang Koch, Voices of the Unborn Third Servant, Solo Voice, Szilvia Vörös who delivers a “finely modulating, touching and never forcing Voices of the Unborn Barak” (Der Kurier). Young French director Vincent Huguet gives Solo Voice, Voices of the Unborn Virginie Verrez his debut in Vienna and tells the story as a complex fairy tale, rich Solo Voice, Voices of the Unborn Bongiwe Nakani in images. Christian Thielemann “presents the most powerful Solo Voice Zoryana Kushpler and poetic Strauss conducting in decades” hails the Neue Zürcher Video Director Jasmina Eleta Zeitung: “The piece has never sounded so rich, so expressive, so beguilingly sensual even under Karl Böhm, Wolfgang Sawallisch Length: approx. 211' Shot in HDTV 1080/50i or Georg Solti.” Cat. no. A 040 50119

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