Daniela Köhler and AJ Glueckert to Lead Oper Köln’s Season Opening Premiere of ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’

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On Sept. 17, Oper Köln will kick off its 2023-24 season with the premiere of R. Strauss and Von Hoffmansthal’s “Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow).” Considered exceptionally demanding, and requiring a massive orchestra, the opera is a fairy tale that Strauss believed was his most important work. The story relates the tale of an ethereal Empress {…}

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Fatma Said, Daniela Köhler & Sophia Maeno Lead Theater Chemnitz’s 2021-22 Season

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Germany’s Theater Chemnitz has announced its 2021-22 season featuring opera, dance, and theater. For the purposes of this article we will focus on opera and vocal performances. Premieres Wagner’s “Tristan Und Isolde” will be conducted by Guillermo García Calvo and directed by Elisabeth Stöppler. The production will star Daniel Kirch, Alexander Kiechle, David Steffens, Stéphanie Müther, Daniela Köhler, Oddur Jonsson, {…}

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DVD Review: Zurich Opera’s ‘Ring Cycle’

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Historically, Wagner stagings have stirred up controversy. They are–to put it bluntly–like a fashion show: seasonally recurrent, fanciful (for better or for worse), and tailored, if you will, to fit just about anything, the blatant as much as the abstruse. New productions, then, warrant a healthy degree of skepticism–especially when, as so often happens, the integrity of the work is {…}

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Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: Die Frau Ohne Schatten

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(Photo: Ruth Walz) Like other fairytales, Richard Strauss’ opera, “Die Frau ohne Shatten,” with its cast of human and supernatural beings, otherworldly locations and a magical plot, makes use of symbols and metaphor to carry deeper messages and thus opens itself up to a wide range of interpretations. Katie Mitchell, the director for Dutch National Opera’s recent production, certainly took {…}

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Aušrinė Stundytė & AJ Glueckert Lead Dutch National Opera’s ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The opera will be presented in a new production by Katie Mitchell and will be conducted by Marc Albrecht. In Mitchell’s production, she critically dissects the opera’s conservative ideals in her own fashion. The opera will star soprano Aušrinė Stundytė as the Dyer’s Wife, {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Another Cast Change for ‘Die Frau Ohne Schatten’

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced a cast change for its Feb. 8 performance of “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The company said, “Lise Lindström takes over the role of the Dyer’s Wife from Catherine Foster.” Lindström is known for her Turandot, Senta, Elektra, and Brünnhilde, and has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Vienna State Opera, the Royal {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Cast Changes for ‘Die Frau Ohne Schatten’

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced cast changes for its production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The company said “Daniela Köhler will sing and play the part of the Empress instead of Jane Archibald and Clay Hilley will sing and plays the part of the Emperor instead of David Butt Philip. We wish both of them strength and success for {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Die Walküre

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(Credit: Fotos von Bernd Uhlig, Kontakt: bernd.uhlig.fotografie@t-online.de) Often after watching a perplexing rendition of “Das Rheingold“, critics and public alike might proclaim: “Let’s see what will happen tomorrow night. Let us hold our judgement until then, to see where all of this is going.” And then, Herheim’s “Die Walküre” began, proving to be the worst of the cycle. The First {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Der Ring des Nibelungen

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(Photo credit: Bernd Uhlig) The man who gave the opera world its most dazzling 21st century “Parsifal,” Stefan Herheim, continues his quest to interrogate the Romantic text that is Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelungen.” Inspired refreshing of a 150-year-old work of art can provide new insights and flashes of illumination. But conceptual pyrotechnics can just as easily destroy its {…}

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Daniela Köhler and AJ Glueckert to Lead Oper Köln’s Season Opening Premiere of ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’

Fatma Said, Daniela Köhler & Sophia Maeno Lead Theater Chemnitz’s 2021-22 Season

DVD Review: Zurich Opera’s ‘Ring Cycle’

Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: Die Frau Ohne Schatten

Aušrinė Stundytė & AJ Glueckert Lead Dutch National Opera’s ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’

Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Another Cast Change for ‘Die Frau Ohne Schatten’

Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Cast Changes for ‘Die Frau Ohne Schatten’

Deutsche Oper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Die Walküre

Deutsche Oper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Der Ring des Nibelungen