
Ep. 109 Die Frau Ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss
Opera For Everyone
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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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