Ep. 109 Die Frau Ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss
Opera For Everyone
The Empress and the Nurse
There's a lot of transition music written into this opera more than I remember from other operas. There's some interesting correspondence that goes on between the librettis, Hoffman-Schtahl, and Strauss. The mood changes that these transitional pieces of music provide are beautiful orchestral pieces. And they really do help us understand that we're leaving one place, moving to another location.
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