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Die Frau ohne Schatten discography

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This is a list of recordings of Die Frau ohne Schatten, a three-act opera by Richard Strauss with a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The work was first performed in Vienna on 10 October 1919.

Recordings

Year Cast
(Kaiser, Kaiserin, Barak,
Färberin, Amme)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label
1955 Hans Hopf
Leonie Rysanek
Ludwig Weber
Christel Goltz
Elisabeth Höngen
Karl Böhm
Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus
(recorded live on 9 Nov)
Audio CD: Orfeo
Cat: C 668 053 D
1955 Hans Hopf
Leonie Rysanek
Paul Schöffler
Christel Goltz
Elisabeth Höngen
Karl Böhm
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
(recorded on 29, 30 Nov and 2, 7, 10 Dec)
Audio CD: Decca Records
Cat: 425 981-2
1963 Jess Thomas
Ingrid Bjoner
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Inge Borkh
Martha Mödl
Joseph Keilberth
Bavarian State Orchestra
(recorded live at National Theatre Munich on 21 Nov)
Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 449 584-2
1964 Jess Thomas
Leonie Rysanek
Walter Berry
Christa Ludwig
Grace Hoffman
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus
(recorded live on 11 June)
Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 457 678-2
1964 Jess Thomas
Gundula Janowitz
Otto Wiener
Gladys Kuchta
Grace Hoffman
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus
(recorded live on 17 June)
Audio CD: Gala
Cat: GL 100.607
1977 James King
Leonie Rysanek
Walter Berry
Birgit Nilsson
Ruth Hesse
Karl Böhm
Vienna State Opera orchestra & chorus
(recorded live on 23 and 27 Oct)
Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 445 325-2
1987 René Kollo
Cheryl Studer
Alfred Muff
Ute Vinzing
Hanna Schwarz
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
(recorded in Feb, March, Nov and Dec)
Audio CD: EMI
Cat: EX 749074-4
1989-1991 Plácido Domingo
Julia Varady
José van Dam
Hildegard Behrens
Reinhild Runkel
Georg Solti
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
(recorded in March, April, Sep, Oct 1989 and Oct 1991)
Audio CD: Decca Records
Cat: 436 243-2
1992 Thomas Moser
Cheryl Studer
Robert Hale
Eva Marton
Marjana Lipovšek
Georg Solti
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
(recorded live at Salzburg Festival)
DVD Video: Decca
Cat: 071425-9
1996 Ben Heppner
Deborah Voigt
Franz Grundheber
Sabine Haas
Hanna Schwarz
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Staatskapelle Dresden
Audio CD: Teldec
Cat: 0630-13516-2
2015 Burkhard Fritz

Tamara Wilson

Terje Stensvold

Sabine Hogrefe

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Sebastian Weigle

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

(recorded live at Oper Frankfurt, Oct/ Nov 2014)

Audio CD: OEHMS Classic

Cat: OV 964

2020 Stephen Gould
Camilla Nylund
Wolfgang Koch
Nina Stemme
Evelyn Herlitzius
Christian Thielemann
Wiener Staatsoper
Audio CD: Orfeo
Cat: C991203

References

Notes
  1. 41 recordings of Die Frau ohne Schatten on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
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