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The music is the star of the Bavarian State Opera's surreal Die Frau ohne Schatten

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 21 December 2014
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Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 20 December 2014
Programme
Strauss R., Die Frau ohne Schatten
Performers
Bavarian State Opera
Kirill Petrenko, Conductor
Krzysztof Warlikowski, Director
Małgorzata Szczęśniak, Costume Designer, Set Designer
Elena Pankratova, Barak the Dyer's Wife
Ricarda Merbeth, Empress
Deborah Polaski, Nurse
Robert Dean Smith, Emperor
Wolfgang Koch, Barak, the Dyer
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, The Guardian of the Threshold
Eri Nakamura, The Voice of a Falcon
Dean Power, The Apparition of a Youth
Matthew Peña, The Hunchback, Barak's Brother
Samuel Youn, The Messenger of Keikobad
Christian Rieger, The One-Armed Man, Barak’s Brother
Tim Kuypers, The One-Eyed Man, Barak’s Brother
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Bavarian State Opera Children's Chorus
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
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Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.