Finale | Act II of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (R. Strauss)

Soprano Christine Brewer (Dyer's Wife), Bass Franz Hawlata (Barak, the Dyer), Soprano Deborah Voight (Empress), Mezzo-Soprano Jill Grove (Nurse), Tenor John Easterlin (Hunchbacked Brother), Baritone Daniel Sutin (One-Eyed Brother) and Bass Andrew Funk (One-Armed Brother) sing the Finale of Act II in Richard Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten." Lyric Opera of Chicago (2007). Audio from July 2008 re-broadcast on KFUO-FM (Classic 99) in St. Louis, Missouri.

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• Christine
• Brewer
• Franz
• Hawlata
• Deborah
• Voigt
• Jill
• Grove
• John
• Easterlin
• Daniel
• Sutin
• Andrew
• Funk
• Frau
• ohne
• Schatten
• Richard
• Strauss

[BGSourgas]

Great work!

Difficult opera and Brewer is just great! Didn't think there was anyone today capable of sing the dyer's wife!

a wonder Waltraud Meier never gave it a go

[mungobuh]

Isn't she just amazing as the Dyer's Wife? She sang it again (with Franz Hawlata) in Paris a few months later. I hope that the other big houses in the US and abroad take note of her work and hire her for their future "Frau" productions!

[BGSourgas]

I read somewhere she pulled out of a NewYork ring cycle? Might not be such a bad thing, the longer this voice is around the better even though i'm sure she can handle herself very well

[mungobuh]

She did pull out of the Met Ring Cycle back in April due to a knee injury...but she's recuperated since and is in Santa Fe right now rehearsing "Alceste."

[profgv]

Not since Ludvig have I heard a Dyers Wife like this.....Brewer is unbelievable..Will the media keep her away from HD? Opera Companies have become an extension of Weight Watchers.....Brewer is major.

[Buondelmonte123]

Wonderful singing in a thrilling piece. I gather the staging was sensational too.

[Pathetikos]

Brewer is fabulous.

Is it that she doesn't want to sing much in operatic productions or she doesn't get hired by big opera houses who prefer slim, sexy Netrebko-like talentless sopranos?