In Review: MONTPELLIER From: Opera News | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Mudge, Stephen | Copyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Oct 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

MONTPELLIER

The only fully staged opera presentation at this year's Festival de Radio France et Montpellier was Des Esels Schatten, by Richard Strauss, in a French version (L'Ombre de l'Ane) by festival director René Koering. Expectations ran high for an unknown late-Strauss comic opera, but listeners were musically shortchanged by this lightweight offering at the Opéra Comédie. Strauss wrote the piece, based on a story by Christoph Martin Wieland, for his much-loved grandson as an ...

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