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Die schweigsame Frau

Music by Richard Strauss · libretto by Stefan Zweig · premiered 1935 · at Semperoper

Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), Op. 80, is a 1935 comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's 1609 comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman.

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Richard Strauss is the composer of record for this opera.

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