What do you do when reviving an opera that has already had two different first halves written for it before? Create yet another one, of course. Iván Fischer’s revival of Richard Strauss’s ...

Richard Strauss’ revolutionary score and scandalous Oscar Wilde–inspired drama took the world by storm at its premiere and continues to wow audiences today. Catherine Naglestad makes her Met ...

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, ...

The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann cover the ...

A jam-packed Garde Arts Center helped usher in a new season of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night ...

The novel, which ‘Good Morning America’ selected for its book club, is set in 1955 and follows Vera, a young Mexican actress ...

The cross-cultural production “Ein Heldenleben · CAI LUN” blends Richard Strauss’s symphonic music with Peking opera to tell the story of Ts'ai Lun, the Chinese inventor who revolutionized ...

Wagner's ideas dominated most music, from the large-scale symphonies of Bruckner and Mahler to the heroic tone poems and operas of Richard Strauss, even reaching Italy, where Verdi and Puccini started ...

Richard’s formal academic schooling ran parallel ... But when he was asked why he did not leave the country, Strauss reportedly replied: ‘Germany had 56 opera houses; the United States had two. It ...

And music, for me, was one of the key elements. I read Oscar Wilde’s play “Salome,” and then I went to see Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome” on the stage as I was working on this novel.