The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has never been equalled. For his remaining 40 years, while certainly not resting on ...

But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss’s last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight. Richard Strauss had finished his Capriccio in 1942.

The Munich Opera House has long rested much of its reputation on those two sturdy musical pillars, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. Last week, as if to say that anything these two ...

Strauss, showing spine, refused to allow Zweig’s name to be taken off posters and programs. The Nazis banned the opera after three performances. Zweig went to England, then New York, then Brazil.

(Those are the title characters of two Strauss operas.) A magnificent singing actress, she is. Stundytė is my latest guest on Q&A, here. She sang at the Salzburg Festival last month, and we sat ...

As opera houses rework Puccini’s classic ... Hernández Audiences could take in works by Strauss and Kaija Saariaho, as well as a new one by Gabriela Lena Frank about Frida Kahlo and Diego ...

This happens near the end of Richard Strauss’ opera Der Rosenkavalier, presented this summer by Santa Fe Opera. An ...

An opera season for Europe: The ARTE Opera Season presents an array of outstanding productions from the continent’s greatest opera houses – some of them classics, some of them exciting new discoveries ...

With some fine recordings of Verdi’s fifth opera already in the catalogue ... compares Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber (first performed in 1920) with Richard Strauss’s Die ...

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A full synopsis of the work provides an insight into the psychological motivation of the drama and an impression of the musical shape and substance of the opera. More detailed analytical comment ...