San Francisco Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten” is an explosive three-plus hours of starry singing and orchestral playing, and bright visuals housed in David Hockney’s dazzling sets. Strauss’ fairy-tale opera, his longest and most complex, comes with a devilish plot about a half-spirit, half-human empress who has no shadow (the opera’s title […]
