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John Shea concludes the week's programmes devoted to Austrian music-making with Act 3 of Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten. Stephen Gould (tenor: The Emperor), Anne Schwanewilms (soprano: The Empress), Michaela Schuster (mezzo: The Nurse), Wolfgang Koch (baritone: Barak, the Dyer), Evelyn Herlitzius (soprano: The Dyer's Wife), Markus Brück (high bass: The One-eyed Man), Steven Humes (bass: The One-Armed Man), Andreas Conrad (tenor: The Hunchback), Thomas Johannes Mayer (high baritone: The Messenger of Keikobad), Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association, Salzburg Festival Children's Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Christian Thielemann.