Organization

Conductor

Kirill Petrenko

Singer

Tenor

Clay Hilley

The Emperor

Soprano

Elza van den Heever

The Empress

Mezzo-soprano

Michaela Schuster

The nurse

Peter Hoare

The hunchback

Baritone

Bogdan Baciu

The messenger of Keikobad

Bass

Nathan Berg

The one-armed man

Bass-baritone

Johannes Weisser

The one-eyed man

Evan LeRoy Johnson

The apparition of a youth

Agnieszka Adamczak

Soloist

Anna Denisova

Dorottya Láng

Kseniia Nikolaieva

Theodore Platt

Wolfgang Koch

Barak

Miina-Liisa Värelä

The dyer's wife

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Others

Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe

Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir

Die Frau ohne Schatten -  (The Woman without a Shadow)

Berlin

Germany

Can you build your happiness in life on the misfortune of others? This is the central theme of Frau ohne Schatten , one of Richard Strauss' most fascinating operas: the Emperor's wife needs a shadow in order to save her husband from petrification and to be able to have children. For this she has to buy shade and fertility from a poor dyer. Kirill Petrenko conducts the sonorous drama in a concert performance.

Berliner Philharmonie

Die Frau ohne Schatten Strauss,R

Public

The Woman without a Shadow

Approved

Darf man sein eigenes Lebensglück auf dem Unglück anderer bauen? Das ist das zentrale Thema der Frau ohne Schatten, einer der rätselhaftesten und faszinierendsten Opern von Richard Strauss: Die Ehefrau des Kaisers, Tochter eines mächtigen Geisterfürsten, braucht einen Schatten, um ihren Mann vor der Versteinerung zu retten und um Kinder bekommen zu können. Um das zu erreichen, muss sie einer armen Färberin Schatten und Fruchtbarkeit abkaufen … Nach Aufführungen in Baden-­Baden dirigiert Kirill Petrenko Strauss’ klangprächtiges psychologisches Drama konzertant in der Philharmonie Berlin.

Deutsch

Can one base one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others? That is the central theme of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), one of Richard Strauss’s most enigmatic and fascinating operas. The emperor’s wife, daughter of the powerful king of the spirit realm, needs a shadow to save the emperor from being turned to stone and to be able to have children. In order to do that, she must buy the shadow and fertility of the poor dyer’s wife. After performances in Baden-Baden, Kirill Petrenko will conduct Strauss’s splendid psychological drama in a concert performance at the Philharmonie Berlin.

English

The Woman without a Shadow by Strauss, From (2023/2023), Conductor Kirill Petrenko, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

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