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

Cioffari, a performer as well as an administrator, will take on his new role to work alongside production teams to shape ...

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

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

As winter turns to spring, Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" comes to the Lyric Opera stage from March 14 to April 12, ...

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

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

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 ...