Richard Strauss’s opera is staged and sung in New York with brilliance and clarity
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 long, complicated and esoteric, but when it is done well it can be a transporting experience.
It’s a rare soprano who can encompass both the bel canto trills and coloratura of her opening scene and the heavy declamation in the final act. She is well matched with Russell Thomas’s Emperor, who brings burnished tone and fearless high notes to the part. Though he has spent much of his career in the Italian repertoire, his sensitivity to the text and phrasing marks him out as a Germanic tenor of note.
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