Die Frau ohne Schatten (finally) comes back to the Met.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
The stars are aligned.
The twelfth messenger has arrived.
The red falcon has come home.
In other words, the Metropolitan Opera finally revived Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten last night. This handsome production by the late Herbert Wernicke has been absent from that company's stage for nine years, an almost unforgivable oversight by one of the few North American companies capable of mounting this difficult work.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Scenes from a marriage: The Empress (Anna Schwanewilms, right) fights to save the Emperor (Torsten Kerl) from being turned to stone in Act III of Die Frau ohne Schatten. Photo by Ken Howard © 2013 The Metropolitan Opera. |
The twelfth messenger has arrived.
The red falcon has come home.
In other words, the Metropolitan Opera finally revived Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten last night. This handsome production by the late Herbert Wernicke has been absent from that company's stage for nine years, an almost unforgivable oversight by one of the few North American companies capable of mounting this difficult work.
