Organization

Dirección de escena

Dirección de escena (+1)

Christof Nel

Dirección orquestal

Dirección orquestal (+1)

Sebastian Weigle

Diseño de vestuario

Ilse Welter

Escenografía

Escenografía (+2)

Jens Kilian

Dramaturgo

Norbert Abels

Tenor (+1)

Michael Siemon

Emperador

Soprano (+3)

Camilla Nylund

La emperatriz

Mezzosoprano (+2)

Christel Loetzsch

Nodriza

Bajobarítono (+4)

Nicholas Brownlee

Mensajero del Espíritu

Tenor (+2)

Brian Michael Moore

La aparición de un joven

Barítono (+2)

Wolfgang Koch

Barak

Soprano (+1)

Miina-Liisa Värelä

Esposa de Barak

Barítono (+3)

Danylo Matviienko

El tuerto

Bajobarítono (+3)

Božidar Smiljanić

El manco

Jonathan Abernethy

El jorobado

Iluminación

Olaf Winter

Dirección coral

Dirección coral (+2)

Tilman Michael

Oper Frankfurt

Chorus

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Opernhaus

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.

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