Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic, "Die Frau ohne Schatten," a tour de force for orchestra and soloists alike. A spectacular trio of sopranos lead the ensemble cast, with Elza van den Heever as the otherworldly "Empress," Lise Lindstrom as the "Dyer’s Wife," and Nina Stemme as the "Nurse."
Read the synopsis and program guide from the Metropolitan Opera.
From the Met: "The fourth collaboration of Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal was in many ways their most ambitious: a heavily symbolic morality tale about love and marriage that unfolds in a fairy-tale world of multiple dimensions. Its five lead roles are daunting even by Strauss’s demanding standards, while the orchestral requirements and staging challenges alone assure this opera a unique spot in the repertory."
Composer: Richard Strauss
Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Nurse: Nina Stemme
Spirit messenger: Ryan Speedo Green
Emperor: Russell Thomas
Empress: Elza van den Heever
Falcon: Jessica Faselt
Hunchbacked brother: Thomas Capobianco
One-eyed brother: Aleksey Bogdanov
One-armed brother: Scott Conner
Dyer’s wife: Lise Lindstrom
Servants: Susanne Burgess, Kathryn Henry, Hannah Ludwig
Voice of a young man: Ryan Capozzo
Voices of the unborn: Meryl Dominguez, Megan Esther Grey, Hannah Jones, Leia Lensing Marielle Murphy, Erin Wagner
Watchmen: Jeongcheol Cha, Paul Corona, Brian Major
Alto voice: Ronnita Miller
Guardian of the threshold: Laura Wilde
Falcon mime Scott Weber
Young man mime: Alexander Ríos
