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Revelatory playing in the Royal Opera's Die Frau ohne Schatten

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Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 14 March 2014
Strauss R., Die Frau ohne Schatten
The Royal Opera
Semyon Bychkov, Conductor
Claus Guth, Director
Elena Pankratova, Barak the Dyer's Wife
Emily Magee, Empress
Michaela Schuster, Nurse
Johan Botha, Emperor
Johan Reuter, Barak, the Dyer
Anush Hovhannisyan, The Voice of a Falcon
Ashley Holland, The Messenger of Keikobad
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