Richard Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Wiener Philharmoniker/Solti)

This edition has the title spanning two discs, but will be shipped together and treated as only one title on your ZipList.

Recorded live at the 1992 Salzburg Summer Festival

Die Frau Ohne Schatten, arguably Strauss's finest collaboration with the great Austrian writer Hofmannsthal, is their "Magic Flute", charting the spiritual journey of two contrasting couples. It is at once a hymn to marriage and its fulfilment by children, and a search for humanity, understanding and love. Sir Georg Solti conducts Gotz Friedrich's memorable production with elemental passion, tempered by sensitivity to the magical character of the opera.