Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review

Festival theatre, Edinburgh; Royal Albert Hall, London"Let your love be hallowed," croons a rhapsodic chorus to a married couple, mid-row, in Richard Strauss's bewildering masterpiece, Die Frau ohne Schatten. It's a hopeless case: Barak the dyer watches telly with the remote in his hand; his peroxide-blond wife lies on the conjugal bed fully dressed, face to the wall. He, the bluff, family man, yearns for children. She, having taken against his one-eyed, one-armed, hunchback trio of brothers,...

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