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Not many masterpieces have premiered at the Vienna State Opera. Die Frau ohne Schatten – the fourth collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal – make one of the few exceptions. On the evening of 25 May 2019 – the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Vienna State Opera – a star-studded festival première of Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten took place at Vienna State Opera. Together with his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Strauss, at the time director of the opera house, developed a fairytale, complex and psychologically discriminating work that received its world première a hundred years ago, on 10 October 1919 at the opera house on the Ring. Since then, Die Frau ohne Schatten has enjoyed a rich performance history and is regarded as a special highlight of Viennese and international music theatre.
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Reviews
Nominee in the Opera category
Gramophone Awards 2021
*** Good disc
Pierre Flinois – Classica magazine (France) – June 2021
Critics’ Choice 2020
“…it [the CD] sounds magnificent. The Kaiserin and Fäberin of Camilla Nylund and Nina Stemme are particularly well characterised, and beautifully sung. Best of all, in this uncut performance, is the sovereign playing of the orchestra under Christian Theilemann.”
Richard Lawrence - Gramophone magazine - December 2020
Nominee in Opera Category
International Classical Music Awards 2021
"... Best of all is Camilla Nylund as the Empress. Hers is a properly Wagnerian soprano, and throughout the opera, you feel she has so much in store - a feeling wholly vindicated be her stentorian performance and the end of the third act, cleanly delineating her lines and maintaining a rare clarity of tone, even in the highest dynamics... Recommended ... for some fine singing from the female leads, especially Camilla Nylund, who is unsurpassed as the Empress."
Gavin Dixon – Fanfare – September/October 2020
“… The conductor here is the true hero: Thielmann’s orchestral storytelling negates any vocal deficiencies, making for an engrossing Frau which carves out a very special niche in the opera’s rich recorded history.”
Christopher Webber - Opera – November 2020
“… The orchestra under Christian Thielemann are simply tremendous – sumptuous, intense, and tinged with a dark glamour so right for this twisted fairy-tale. Climaxes are expertly built and controlled, the winds are surpassingly delicate when required, and the strings bounce from achingly tender to manically driven. His assembled cast are similarly distinguished … Excellently recorded by Orfeo, with voices captured clearly and naturally, this recording is one for the collection.” ****½
Limelightmagazine,com.au – 9 August 2020
Editor's Choice
"...This is essential listening for anyone interested in this remarkable work."
Hugo Shirley - Gramophone magazine - August 2020
Recommended
“The finest live Frau we have on CD.”
Simon Thompson – MusicWeb-International.com – 29 June 2020
“… The clearly best performance comes from Nina Stemme in the role of the Dyer. She sings the versatile role with changing temperament between lovely and scratchy, just as Strauss probably imagined it. The Swedish soprano’s creative intelligence and the theatrically confident feeling is incomparable here as in other roles. Camilla Nylund sings with a genuinely beautiful and colourful voice and gives the Empress a strong character. In the role of the Emperor, Stephen Gould impresses with a slender, mostly confident tenor voice… Wolfgang Koch’s Barak shows himself to be a perfect Strauss singer, both dramatically and vocally. Christian Thielemann’s conducting is phenomenal, and under his direction the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera blossoms into a top Strauss orchestra. Despite the energetic accentuation and the opulent sound, he also proves to be a master of the most delicate, sensual expression, bringing an immense amount of breath and intensity to the opera. From the finest to the most powerful passages, the orchestra offers a dramatically exciting performance with an impressive transparency and variety of colours.” *****
Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 27 April 2020
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