Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Richard Strauss's epic fairytale live at the New York Met, starring Elza van den Heever, Lise Lindstrom, Nina Stemme, Michael Volle and Russell Thomas.

The opera house that was in its day the largest in Europe hosted the likes of Richard Strauss and Leo Blech as conductors.

What do you do when reviving an opera that has already had two different first halves written for it before? Create yet another one, of course. Iván Fischer’s revival of Richard Strauss’s ...

Richard Strauss’ revolutionary score and scandalous Oscar Wilde–inspired drama took the world by storm at its premiere and continues to wow audiences today. Catherine Naglestad makes her Met ...

The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann cover the ...

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, ...

Opera on 3 Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos A performance of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos from Aix-en-Provence. A performance of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos from Aix-en-Provence.

The cross-cultural production “Ein Heldenleben · CAI LUN” blends Richard Strauss’s symphonic music with Peking opera to tell the story of Ts'ai Lun, the Chinese inventor who revolutionized ...

Felicity Lott AnneSofie Von Otter and Kurt Moll star in this production of Richard Strauss opera staged in Vienna in 1994 A romantic comedy of errors Princess von Werdenberg must hide her affair ...

Richard’s formal academic schooling ran parallel ... But when he was asked why he did not leave the country, Strauss reportedly replied: ‘Germany had 56 opera houses; the United States had two. It ...