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...alternately anguished and tender dialogue of Herr, was traegt der Boden hier, the elaborate pathos of Bedeckt mich mis Bluemen, were projected with mastery; no less remarkable--for Schwarzkopf dearly loves a song in which she can be girlish and winning--was the sly humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content. The Wolf group was lengthened...
...realized," said Richard Strauss of the Meisterwerk of his middle age, "that the opera would never have much success." He was speaking of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), the huge complex of mythology and symbolism that he constructed with Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal during World War I. Strauss guessed correctly: since its premiere in Vienna in 1919, the work has rarely been staged in Europe and never in the U.S. Last week Die Frau finally appeared on a U.S. stage in a San Francisco Opera production that made cheering audiences wonder where she had been...
...Strauss, a giant in his own right, stood between the influences of two other musical greats. He acknowledged one when, as he began work on Der Rosenkavalier in 1909, he said: "This time I shall write a Mozart opera." He repeatedly acknowledged Richard Wagner before starting Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), a huge opera that sounds thunderous echoes of the Ring cycle as well as of Strauss's own tone poems. Now recorded for the first time in an ambitious five-disk set by London, Die Frau Ohne Schatten is one of the most fascinating...
Next Miss Smith plunged into the thick of the lieder repertoire: Schumann, Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. She was most effective in the five songs by Wolf, combining sensitive interpretation with some stunning tones. Nun Wandre, Maria and In Dem Schatten were especially lovely. The major novelty on the program was the presence of five songs by an Argentinean composer, Ginastera. Two of his songs Tristo and Gato, stood out as being more than merely energetic. The able accompanist of the evening, Jon Thackery, showed his technical agility in Gato...
Steber's test came in a concert-version revival of Richard Strauss's fairy-tale opera, Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), and in a soprano role which Vienna's beloved Maria Jeritza introduced to the Viennese in 1919. The story: an emperor on a hunt sees a white gazelle, and when he throws his spear at her, she turns into a woman. The emperor takes her home and makes her his wife. But the new empress does not cast a shadow, and, uneasily, the emperor realizes that his bewitching wife is not really...