Organization

Stage director

Christof Nel

Conductor

Sebastian Weigle

Costume designer

Ilse Welter

Set designer

Jens Kilian

Dramaturge

Norbert Abels

Singer

Tenor

Michael Siemon

The Emperor

Soprano

Camilla Nylund

The Empress

Mezzo-soprano

Christel Loetzsch

The nurse

Baritone

Nicholas Brownlee

The messenger of Keikobad

Brian Michael Moore

The apparition of a youth

Bass-baritone

Wolfgang Koch

Barak

Miina-Liisa Värelä

The dyer's wife

Danylo Matviienko

The one-eyed man

Bass

Božidar Smiljanić

The one-armed man

Jonathan Abernethy

The hunchback

Lighting designer

Olaf Winter

Chorus master

Tilman Michael

Oper Frankfurt

Others

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

German

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

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Opernhaus

Public

The Woman without a Shadow

English

Approved

In this video you can see the introductory lecture by dramaturge Deborah Einspieler to Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, which will be revived in the opera house on March 13, 2022 in Christof Nel's production. Further information and tickets can be found here: https://t1p.de/pmv2o

Die Frau ohne Schatten Strauss,R

Die Frau ohne Schatten is the fourth opera to be written as a collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and the “last romantic opera”, as Strauss wrote in a letter to Hofmannsthal. The librettist has penetrated far into the world of Arabic fairy tales, Nordic sagas and Christian legends. The completion of the work was delayed by the simultaneous completion of Ariadne auf Naxos and the start of the First World War. The woman without a shadowimpresses with its symbolic colors, a not entirely simple fairy tale structure and intoxicating music. In 2003, director Christof Nel dealt with the enigmatic Hofmannsthal text in a conception that is still exemplary today. He focused on the relationship between the two couples who face each other here: Emperor and Empress on the one hand, Barak and his wife on the other. In the spirit of the underlying oriental fairy tale between the world of spirits and the world of humans, Nel succeeded in providing a mysterious insight into the psyche of the protagonists with careful directing of the characters.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble