The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Die Frau ohne Schatten

The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Die Frau ohne Schatten at Severance Music Center

A great opera can make a whole concert hall feel like another world. Die Frau ohne Schatten has the myth, emotion, and sweeping Strauss orchestration to do exactly that—and Welser-Möst's Cleveland performances give the score room to unfold.

When Franz Welser-Möst brings Die Frau ohne Schatten to Severance Music Center, Cleveland gets more than an opera night — it gets one of Strauss’s most demanding, lavish works in the hands of a conductor who has shaped the Orchestra’s sound for a quarter century.

The Cleveland Orchestra is presenting a fully staged production of Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, and that alone makes the performance stand out. This opera is built on drama, color, and scale, the kind of score that rewards a live hall because every orchestral turn matters. With Welser-Möst on the podium in his final season as Music Director, the performance carries extra weight for longtime Cleveland listeners. Explore the opera and festival context

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