Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op.65 (Strauss, Richard)

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Editor First edition (later printing) Publisher. Info. Berlin: Adolph Fürstner, 1919. Plate A. 7500 F. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del/mrg] Misc. Notes 600 dpi Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

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Arranger Otto Singer (1863-1931), piano reduction Language German Publisher. Info. Berlin: Adolph Fürstner, 1919. Plate A. 7503 F. Reprinted London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1943. Plate B. & H. 17591. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del/mrg] Misc. Notes 600dpi Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

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|Work Title=Die Frau ohne Schatten |Alternative Title=The Woman without a Shadow |Opus/Catalogue Number=Op.65 ; TrV 234 |Key= |Number of Movements/Sections=3 acts |Average Duration=210 Minutes |Dedication= |First Performance=1919-10-10 in Vienna, Vienna Staatsoper

Franz Schalk (conductor)

|Year/Date of Composition=1914-17 |Year of First Publication=1919 |Genre=Opera |Librettist=Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) |Language=German |Piece Style=Early 20th century |Related Works=Wikipedia article
See also the Sinfonische Fantasie aus "Die Frau ohne Schatten", TrV 234a
Boosey & Hawkes page |Instrumentation=Voices, Chorus and Orchestra

Cast

The Emperor: (tenor)
The Empress, Keikobad's daughter, the Emperor's wife: (high dramatic soprano)
The Nurse, The Empress's guardian: (dramatic mezzo-soprano)
The Messenger of Keikobad: (high baritone)
The Guardian of the Threshold of the temple: (soprano or countertenor)
The Apparition of a Youth: (high tenor)
The Voice of a Falcon: (soprano)
A Voice From Above: (contralto)
Barak, the Dyer: (bass-baritone)
The Dyer's Wife: (high dramatic soprano)
The One-eyed Man, Barak's brother: (high bass)
The One-Armed Man, Barak's brother: (bass)
The Hunchback, Barak's brother: (high tenor)
Voices of Six Unborn Children: (3 sopranos, 3 contraltos or baritones)
Voices of Three Town Watchmen: (3 baritones or basses)

Chorus (SATB)

Servants of the Empress, other children and beggar-children,
spirit-servants and attendant spirit-voices

Pit-Orchestra

4 flutes (3rd and 4th also piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd also English horn), 2 clarinets (B{{flat, C),

clarinet (E♭) (also clarinet (D)), bass clarinet (B♭) (also clarinet (C)), basset-horn (also clarinet(C)), 4 bassoons (4th also contrabassoon)

8 horns (F, E, E♭, D, C) (5-8 also on 2 tenor Wagner tubas (B♭, F)), 6 trumpets (B♭, C, E, E♭), 4 trombones, bass tuba

4 Timpani, Percussion:

(Musical glasses, 5 Chinese gongs, cymbals, snare drum, rute, sleigh bells, bass drum, tenor drum, big field drum,
triangle, tambourine, 2 castanets, tamtam, whip (slapstick), xylophone, glockenspiel, bells)

2 celestas, 2 harps, strings (vlnI/16,vlnII/16,vlaI/6,vlaII/6,vlcI/6,vlcII/6,db/8)

On-Stage Orchestra

2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets (C), bassoon,

Horn (F), 6 trumpets (C), 6 trombones,

Wind machine, thunder machine, 4 tam-tams, organ

(On-stage woodwinds and horn may play in pit if necessary; two of the on-stage trumpets
move to the pit for Act III, thus a total of 10 trumpets is required.)

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