
Ep. 109 Die Frau Ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss
Opera For Everyone
The Emperor's Love for the Empress
The emperor is one of those characters that is he is human, but he has a divinity to him in the way that like a any king or emperor of history or myth kind of does there. So even though he's human, he lives in a sort of in between world where he they say in the the opera, his the towers of his palace touch the sky. He's as divine as a human could be. And so all sorts of strange things happen to him too.
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