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Composer
Richard Strauss

Works
Die Frau ohne Schatten
(complete opera)
Catalogue Number:
071 425-9 DH2
International Release Date:
August 2002
Video clips:
56k
ISDN

CAST
Cheryl Studer Die Kaiserin
Thomas Moser Der Kaiser
Marjana Lipovsek Die Amme
Robert Hale Barak
Eva Marton Seine Frau
Bryn Terfel Der Geisterbote

Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti

Director: Götz Friedrich
Directed for television by Brian Large

 ABOUT THIS DVD
 Sir Georg Solti was regarded as without peer in Strauss opera, and his early 90s audio recording of Die Frau ohne Schatten immediately established itself as the reference version. Complementing this celebrated CD recording is Solti's powerful video performance of Strauss's mystical fable, in Götz Friedrich's magnificent staging for the Salzburg Festival, filmed in the summer of 1992. This performance also presents (at Solti's insistence) the opera uncut.

The exceptionally wide stage of Salzburg was perfectly suited to the grandeur of Friedrich's conception, while the intimacy of Hofmannsthal's drama was vividly recreated by an impressive international cast that included Cheryl Studer and Eva Marton, as well as an early stage appearance from the young Bryn Terfel, as the Spirit Messenger. The widescreen TV direction was in the veteran hands of Brian Large.

This is not only an outstanding Die Frau, but the only recording of the opera on DVD (now or indeed in the likely future). As well as the original CD-quality stereo, the DVD newly offers a six-channel surround sound in the premier DTS format, as well as subtitling in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.
KEY FACTS
203 mins 2 DVD-9 (dual-layer)
/ DVD-5		 16:9 NTSC 1–6
(worldwide playback)		 LPCM Stereo / DTS Digital 5.1 Surround
Colour Salzburg Summer Festival, 1992 English English / French / Italian / Spanish / Chinese English / French / German N/A
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