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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera 4 Video: Lisette Oropesa Sings Act II Aria From I ...

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — 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 ...

“Guntram” was Richard Strauss’s first opera. Like many first operas by composers who later became famous (“Oberto,” “Die Feen,” “Apollo et Hyacinthus”), it’s a little raw around the edges, and it ...

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 ...

Relatives of the man who helped composer Richard Strauss create famous works are suing the heirs of the composer for royalties. Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote the words for nine Strauss works, including ...

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 ...