Lagging were Strauss' “Die Frau ohne Schatten” (68%0, Verdi's “Rigoletto” (64%), Offenbach's “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and the German-language version of Mozart's “Die Zauberflöte” (62% each) and ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera launches its 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts on Dec. 7 with Richard Strauss’s epic fairy tale: “Die Frau ohne Schatten” – “The Woman ...

Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Die Frau ohne Schatten begins after happily-ever-after and ends as another ever-after begins—essentially, it’s an opera about the beginning of a middle.

Die Frau ohne Schatten is Richard Strauss’s most ambitious work, requiring enormous vocal and orchestral forces as well as elaborate stage effects ranging from waterfalls to singing fish.

“Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” a dense ode to fertility, may not sound appealing at first. But in this performance, the fairy tale comes movingly to life.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic in Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. See video highlights from the production.

In his book A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera, Peter Conrad writes, “Strauss tries to outwit history by being both Mozart and Wagner at once…. Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919) began as ...

“Die Frau ohne Schatten” (Woman without a Shadow) soars, but “Madame Butterfly” doesn’t float and flutter but, surprisingly, falls lifeless.

"Die Frau ohne Schatten" continues at 7 p.m. June 10, June 20, June 23 and June 28 at the War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. Tickets are $26 to $464.

But far less well-traversed ground follows on Sunday afternoon with the rarely performed Richard Strauss vehicle "Die Frau ohne Schatten," perhaps the most massively cast of his operas, requiring ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten, like Elektra, requires one of the largest pit orchestras in the operatic repertoire, and Maestro Runnicles leads the artists of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, including ...