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

Independent Opera Company will continue its 2024-2025 season with 'Daphne,' a rarely- performed opera by German composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

will delight opera lovers with its depiction of romance and artistic life in 19th-century Paris (Sunday, March 23, 2025), while Richard Strauss’s Ariadna Auf Naxos (Monday, May 19, 2025 ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the ...

The present production, conducted by Alejo Pérez and directed by Erjan Mondtag who also designed the set and costumes, has ...

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 ...