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The chief virtue of the Met's dazzling but debatable new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, which opened on December 13, is that it presents, for the first time here, every note and word of Richard Strauss's score and Hugo yon Hofmannsthal's libretto. "Here," in fact, gives hardly a hint of the whole situation. Uncut performances of the most beautiful, complex, poetic, profound and, yes, lengthy of the Strauss--Hofmannsthal collaborations have been almost universally unheard of over its eighty-two-year career. Christian Thielemann, general music director of Berlin's Deutsche Oper, who conducted the new Met Frau, stated in this magazine his utter belief in presenting ...

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