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Die Frau ohne Schatten
Opera in three acts text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
In German with German and English surtitles
Inspired by oriental fairy tales and with an admiring view of Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal created their fourth joint opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten" in 1919, a giant work that is as enigmatic as it is fascinating, rich in symbols and powerful in sound. Before the time horizon of its creation - between the devastating experiences of the First World War and the emerging findings of psychoanalysis - it is about nothing less than the question of how people can regain love and humanity in the face of millions of deaths and emotional torpor.
And so we follow the empress, who as the fairy daughter of the ghost king Keikobad in the form of a gazelle was once hunted down by the emperor and taken to wife, on the search for the shadow that promised her fertility and incarnation. When she realizes that she could only achieve this at the expense of the misfortune of the faithfully loving dyer Barak and his wife, she gives up - at the risk of turning her husband, the emperor, into petrification. But it is precisely this insight into the power of human love and its ability to change that makes the empress become a human being and the fairy tale ends well.
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In German with German and English surtitles
Inspired by oriental fairy tales and with an admiring view of Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal created their fourth joint opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten" in 1919, a giant work that is as enigmatic as it is fascinating, rich in symbols and powerful in sound. Before the time horizon of its creation - between the devastating experiences of the First World War and the emerging findings of psychoanalysis - it is about nothing less than the question of how people can regain love and humanity in the face of millions of deaths and emotional torpor.
And so we follow the empress, who as the fairy daughter of the ghost king Keikobad in the form of a gazelle was once hunted down by the emperor and taken to wife, on the search for the shadow that promised her fertility and incarnation. When she realizes that she could only achieve this at the expense of the misfortune of the faithfully loving dyer Barak and his wife, she gives up - at the risk of turning her husband, the emperor, into petrification. But it is precisely this insight into the power of human love and its ability to change that makes the empress become a human being and the fairy tale ends well.
Subject to change.
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