The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949 ... the limits of dissonance and dramatic shock with his operas “Salome” and “Elektra” in the first decade ...

The Jupiter String Quartet gave a concert in Foellinger Great Hall on Feb. 4 of music written for a string sextet by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms.

Celebrated tenor to perform two concerts in Seoul next month Ten years have passed since Jonas Kaufmann's triumphant Korea ...

San Francisco Opera's 2025–26 Season culminates in Summer 2026 with Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) with two brilliant casts, Richard Strauss and Hugo von ...

Long-awaited production of “The Monkey King,” adapted by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang from the classic 16th-century ...

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes six new productions and modern works by Mason Bates, Kaija Saariaho ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Richard Strauss called his second-to-last opera, Die Liebe der Danae (completed in 1940), “a cheerful mythology in three acts” — but is it? The image of Trump has long since ceased to evoke mirth. It ...