Heroes and Beasts: Die Frau ohne Schatten in Warsaw

Die Frau ohne Schatten

Lise Lindström (Dyer's Wife)

Lindsay Ammann (Nurse) and Lise Lindstrom (The Dyer's Wife)

Tadeusz Szlenkier (Emperor) and Annemarie Kremer (Empress)

Tadeusz Szlenkier (Emperor)

Lise Lindstrom (The Dyer's Wife) and Lauri Vasar (Barak)

Von Hugo Shirley, 17 Februar 2026

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“a statement of intent in set-designer-turned-intendant Boris Kudlička’s first season in charge”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatr Wielki: Moniuszko Hall, Warsaw, am 15 Februar 2026

Strauss R., Die Frau ohne Schatten

Polish National Opera

Bassem Akiki, Musikalische Leitung

Mariusz Treliński, Regie

Fabien Lédé, Bühnenbild

Marek Adamski, Kostüme

Marc Heinz, Licht

Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki

Chorus of the Teatr Wielki

Tadeusz Szlenkier, Emperor

Annemarie Kremer, Empress

Lindsay Ammann, Nurse

Lauri Vasar, Barak, the Dyer

Lise Lindstrom, Barak the Dyer's Wife

A tawdry travesty of a Traviata in Warsaw

Jonathan Sutherland, 7th April

Mariusz Treliński's Traviata had nothing to do with Dumas, Piave or Verdi. It's as if he confused La Dame aux camélias with Lulu.

**111

No mercy for Ivo Van Hove’s Clemenza

Jonathan Sutherland, 16th January

Strong musical performances, but Ivo Van Hove’s Powerpoint presentation of Clemenza at the Teatr Wielki is out of focus.

****1

Seereise von Tristan und Isolde in Baden-Baden

Ako Imamura, 28th March

Sir Simon Rattle und die Berliner Philharmoniker glänzten in einer zum Nachdenken anregenden Produktion von Tristan und Isolde mit einem starken Gesangsensemble.

****1

Destiny has rarely been gloomier: Treliński's new Forza at the Met

Robert Levine, 26th February

The first new Forza at the Met for nearly 30 years is lustily sung, led by Norwegian soprano, Lise Davidsen, and Igor Golovatenko as her vengeful brother.

****1

Le côté obscur de La Femme sans ombre à l’Opéra de Lyon

Tristan Labouret, 17th October

Pour la première fois représenté dans la capitale des Gaules, l'opéra virtuose de Richard Strauss bénéficie d'une extraordinaire interprétation musicale qui vient compenser les limites de la mise en scène.

****1

Die tote Stadt à La Monnaie : d’une enivrante morbidité

Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 22nd October

L'opéra de Korngold se dévoile à La Monnaie dans une mise en scène grandiose de Mariusz Treliński, mêlant le cauchemar et la perversion à la tendresse et à la rédemption.

*****

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Heroes and Beasts: Mariusz Treliński’s staging of Die Frau ohne Schatten in Warsaw