Costume design by Alfred Roller for the premiere, for the role of the Nurse
Translation
The Woman without a Shadow
Librettist
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Language
German
Based on
Conversations of German Emigrants by Goethe
Premiere
10 October 1919 (1919-10-10)
Vienna State Opera
Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917. When it premiered at the Vienna State Opera on 10 October 1919, critics and audiences were unenthusiastic. Many cited problems with Hofmannsthal's complicated and heavily symbolic libretto.[1] However, it is now a standard part of the operatic repertoire.
^Michael Kennedy (2006). Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 9780521027748.
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