R. Strauss last opera "Des Esels Schatten": anyone seen/heard it?

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R. Strauss last opera "Des Esels Schatten": anyone seen/heard it?

I was listening to our local NPR's last Sunday's Opera broadcast; and if I'm not mistaken - correct me if wrong - listened to the final segment of the above entitled - I had never even heard of it. It was not completed by Strauss, but another.

There's no You Tube video performance of any part of it that I could locate; and am only able to come up with these references:

Amazon.com: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdXHRYrdRqR...

And this Wikipedia article, listing it amongst Strauss' operas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Ric...

I'm really curious about this work; so if you have heard or even possibly seen a performance of it, please respond.

Thank you very much,

Alberich

Update:

@@@@ "wvcultur...": best of luck. Be sure if you will so please, to edit your response; should you come across one - hope you are a better 'researcher' than I am.

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Doctor John

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There is this from OPERA NEWS

http://business.highbeam.com/3766/article-1G1-1938...

"Inspired by a request from the headmaster of his grandson's grammar school, the eighty-three-year-old Richard Strauss undertook his last (unfinished) work, The Donkey Shadow, so that the schoolchildren might have their very own Strauss "singspiel" to perform. The thought of these youngsters actually presenting this work is hilarious, as it is truly Straussian in its vocal demands, if not in its scale. …..."

Apparently performed at the Montpellier festival 2004. Here is a link to the review

http://musicweb-international.com/SandH/2004/May-A...

There is only one recording of Des Esels Schatten by Richard Strauss (performed in German)

Conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher - 1995-97(STU)

Orchestra - Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin

Chorus - Rundfunkchor Berlin

Struthion - Andreas Kohn

Anthrax - Eberhard Büchner

Krobyle - Mette Ejsing

Gorgo - Bodil Arnesen

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