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Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten

classical music, opera, theatre
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  • Photo: Attila Nagy
  • Photo: László Emmer
  • Photo: László Emmer

Conductor:

Péter Halász

Performers:

Emperor
István Kovácsházi
Nurse
Ildikó Komlósi
The Messenger of the Spirits
Zsolt Haja
The Guardian of the Threshold
Ingrid Kertesi
The Apparition of a Youth
Péter Balczó
Falcon
Erika Markovics
A Voice from Above
Atala Schöck
Barak
Johan Reuter
Barak's wife
Szilvia Rálik
The One-eyed Man
Lajos Geiger
The One-armed Man
Ferenc Cserhalmi
The Hunchback
István Horváth
watchmen
Zsolt Haja, Ferenc Cserhalmi, Lajos Geiger
voices of the unborn children
Ildikó Szakács, Ingrid Kertesi, Bori Keszei, Erika Markovics, Gabriella Balga, Atala Schöck
servants of the Empress
Ildikó Szakács, Bori Keszei, Gabriella Balga

Creators:

Empress
Eszter Sümegi
librettist
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
hungarian surtitles
Máté Mesterházi
head of the Children's Choir
Nikolett Hajzer
acting choirmaster
Gábor Csiki

Featuring:

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

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  • R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Concert opera performance in three acts, in German, with Hungarian surtitles

"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer,” is how Richard Strauss, "the last great Romantic”, described himself. Die Frau ohne Schatten was created during World War One. Hofmannsthal's libretto is a work of Freudian inspiration that is full of powerful symbolism and extraordinarily endowed characters.

Although Richard Strauss's long career spanned one of the most chaotic eras in political, sociological and cultural history, he preserved his inherently Romantic aesthetic into the age of television, aeroplane engines and the atom bomb. There were few composers of that time who could measure up to Strauss in terms of his imaginative scoring, and no-one else since Wagner has left such a deep mark on opera history. The passion of his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, was the theatre; with masterful symbolism, his librettos written for intricately developed characters belong to the category of dramatic texts whose calibre is such that they can stand alone on their own literary merit.
Die Frau ohne Schatten takes place in a mystical and mythical Eastern world, in the realm of the Seven Moon Mountains and the Southeastern Islands surrounded by a dark river. This work requiring a vast orchestra is monumental and powerful "Wagnerian” music that is at the same time full of beauty and subtlety, chamber-type music and parts reduced for solo instruments. Die Frau ohne Schatten was conceived during the twilight of the era that the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig (who later succeeded Hofmannstahl as Strauss's librettist) termed "the golden age of security”; the summation of the tradition that was rocked at its foundation by the First World War.


Presented by: Hungarian State Opera

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30 January 2018, Tuesday 6 pm — 10 pm
two intervals
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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