The opera premiered the following year in Dresden, on a double bill with the Bavarian composer's paean to peace, Friedenstag.

He sang in three Strauss operatic premieres: Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae, and the incomparable Capriccio.

Consider the journey--from classical antiquity and Biblical times in Elektra and Salome, to the end of the 30 Years War in Friedenstag, to the farcical retirement home of a 17th-century admiral in Die Schweigsame Frau, to the more intimate 18th- and 19th-century drawing rooms and parlors of the European aristocracy in Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella and Capriccio, and to a timeless, magical realm where spirits and humans meet in Die Frau Ohne Schatten.