Organization

Regisseur

Regisseur (+1)

Christof Nel

Dirigent

Dirigent (+1)

Sebastian Weigle

Kostuum ontwerper

Ilse Welter

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Jens Kilian

Dramaturg

Norbert Abels

Tenor (+1)

Michael Siemon

Der Kaiser

Sopraan (+3)

Camilla Nylund

Die Kaiserin

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Christel Loetzsch

Die Amme

Bas-bariton (+4)

Nicholas Brownlee

Der Geisterbote

Tenor (+2)

Brian Michael Moore

Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings

Bariton (+2)

Wolfgang Koch

Barak

Sopraan (+1)

Miina-Liisa Värelä

Die Färberin

Bariton (+3)

Danylo Matviienko

Der Einäugige

Bas-bariton (+3)

Božidar Smiljanić

Der Einarmige

Jonathan Abernethy

Der Bucklige

Licht ontwerper

Olaf Winter

Koor meester

Koor meester (+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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