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

Music director Franz Welser-Möst leads performances of Fifth Symphony, Leonore Overture No. 3 and Janáček suite.

Sopranos Kirsten Chambers, Marcy Stonikas and Nina Warren are co-starring in Opera’s upcoming ‘Salome’ production ...

The pairing of Strauss and Mahler provided a poignant exploration of life’s fleeting beauty with a sense of introspection and ...

The Madison Symphony Orchestra will explore the legacy of two influential composers this weekend through their final works.

A young director tries to remount her mentor's version of the opera "Salome" while dealing with trouble in her personal life, ...

The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director mounting a production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” that increasingly ...

Richard’s formal academic schooling ran parallel to his musical ... The influential pianist, composer and conductor Hans von Bülow took a shine to the young Strauss. When he left his orchestra at ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...