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 ...

Richard Strauss and his Heroines Divorce! After six years of marriage the choleric and chronically jealous Pauline, daughter ...

Richard Strauss demands virtuosic agility, and Mozart requires perfection from orchestras. The Madison Symphony Orchestra’s ...

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 ...

The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director mounting a production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” that increasingly reflects her childhood trauma, to the confusion of Jeanine’s cast, crew, ...