Recent stagings of classics like “La Traviata” and rarities like “Intermezzo” are among the highlights. Holiday weeks, quiet ...

The composer Richard Strauss has a complicated legacy. Beginning in 1933, Strauss served as the President of the Reichsmusikkammer, the Nazi Reich’s Chamber of Music, a damning collaboration with the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The University Musical Society will welcome Maestro Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra ...

Stefan Zweig, el conocido novelista austríaco y judío, colaboró con Richard Strauss en su Die Schweigsame Frau (La mujer silenciosa) en 1935 y, después, le sugirió al compositor una ópera basada en ...

San Francisco Opera Presents Strauss and Hofmannsthal's "Die Frau ohne San Francisco Opera presents Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman ...

A scandalous dance and a shocking kiss. Madison Opera opens its 62nd season with Richard Strauss' Salome on Friday, November 4 at 8pm and Sunday, November 6 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture ...

What is an intermezzo? There are several famous musical intermezzi such as those found in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci but there is also an entire opera entitled Intermezzo by Richard Strauss.

Written during World War II when the composer was in his 70s and never performed in his lifetime, Richard Strauss's "Die Liebe der Danae" was long dismissed as a lame effort by an aging genius whose ...

Salzburg’s great music festival is traditionally dedicated to Mozart. For 30 years, thousands of visitors have flocked each summer to the ancient town which sprawls under its towering 11th Century ...

Thirty is not old in opera. An art form that’s been around for more than three centuries, it is also an art form that takes the long view. Classic 1950s and 1960s opera recordings of standard ...