Some filth or dementia from Remko Jas
To make a success of the Empress in Frau ohne Schatten, it is not enough to be a fine singer and a great actress.
By Remko Jas
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Anne Schwanewilms
17 pieces since 2011 — in 7 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Salzburg Festival.
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3 pieces as Salzburg Festival — stats above show all coverage for Anne Schwanewilms.
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Shadow, no doubt
Richard Strauss’s “last romantic opera,” as he called Die Frau Ohne Schatten, is and has always been a problem child.
Die Frau Ohne Schallplattenaufnahme
Not a fairy kingdom, but rather an unheated postwar Vienna ballroom transformed into an improvised recording studio: that’s the setting for Christof Loy‘s new production of Die Frau Ohne Schatten at Salzburg. The production is also (if not more so) notable for Christian Thielemann‘s virtuouso conducting of the Vienna Philharmonic and the hair-raising performances of […]