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

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 ...

The Vienna Philharmonic returned to Southern California in fine form, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin with Yefim Bronfman ...

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

Now, I realize I have been making my way through dozens of “meh” singers, doing their best but just not moving the needle.

Oscar Wilde's tragedy, Salome, was first translated into opera in 1905 by Richard Strauss. Combining dramatic vibratos and a seductive orchestral arrangement, Strauss' opera is intense to say the ...

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, ...

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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