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

Strauss’s four songs were performed by soprano Amanda Majeski, whose career has recently taken her to The Royal Opera of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...