Shadow of a Childless Woman: The Mythic Roots of Strauss’s ‘Frau’

Shadow of a Childless Woman: The Mythic Roots of Strauss’s ‘Frau’

The New York Times - Music:

What’s behind the strange emphasis on childlessness in “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” the Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera now at the Met? Look to the ancients.

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