The long-awaited revival of Herbert Wernicke’s production, which premiered in 2001 and has not appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House since the 2013-2014 season, bears out this difficulty. Strauss’s ...
“Die Frau Ohne Schatten” is a difficult opera for any conductor. Klaus Mäkelä chose it for his first new production, in front of a global audience. By Joshua Barone Reporting from the Aix-en-Provence ...
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.
Plot Summary: Frau Faust re-imagines the classical German legend, with the titular Faust now a woman. Nearly a century after her deal with a devil, Johanna Faust ends up saving a young boy, Marion, ...