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Strauss in the Shadows: Germany Spearheads a Revival of the Composer’s Lesser-Known Operas
https://operawire.com/strauss-in-the-shadows-germany-spearheads-a-revival-of-the-composers-lesser-known-operas/
I. In a city as operatically overdetermined as Berlin, even a new production of Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau ohne Schatten” might be expected to pass with respectable indifference. But when Tobias Kratzer mounted the late-Romantic behemoth this January at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, capping a Strauss trilogy that had begun with “Arabella” and “Intermezzo,” the result was not just another {…}
