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Want to see the dress rehearsal of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Royal Opera House tomorrow?
Reader Duncan has a spare (very good) ticket to give away.
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The Royal Opera House's spring season opens for Friends booking tomorrow (11 December), with public booking starting on 14 January 2014.
First stop for many ticket buyers will be Jonas Kaufmann's Winterreise on 6 April. Not the most obvious choice of repertoire, either for Kaufmann or for the venue, but any Jonas is better than none. Tickets are likely to go quickly.
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Die Frau ohne Schatten - Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, 29 July 2011 (first night)

It now seems incredible that Strauss's musically richest and most colourful opera was dismissed as 'boring' by its first critics. Christian Thielemann coaxed the Vienna Philharmonic into a display of such aural opulence on its Friday premiere that it was easy to overlook the deficiencies of Christof Loy's meagre production.
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