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Sir George Solti conducts Götz Friedrich's production of Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten in a 1992 stage performance captured live at the 1992 Salzburg Summer Festival. A humanistic hymn to marriage that served as Strauss' most revered collaboration with Austrian writer Hofmannsthal, Die Frau ohne Schatten is directed for television by Brian Large and features actors Thomas Moser, Cheryl Studer, and Marjana Lipovsek in the lead roles.