Richard Strauss's last opera, Capriccio, was written in 1940. It has an odd little string sextet in it that happens offstage. The musicians in this performance, ON stage, are from the group ...

Strauss’ symphony is a crash course in great composers, taking inspiration from Beethoven, Brahms, and a handful of others. The brooding opening Allegro and the sprightly Scherzo that follows reflect ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Salzburg Festival expect to hear the best of classical music; last week they got something even better: a Historic Occasion. At curtain time the old Festival Hall was filled with ...

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

During our ewvening music program Richard Strauss takes us on a hike to a spectacular mountain summit in his Alpine Symphony. Tune in at 8 pm on 91.1 and 107.5 FM or our music stream.

For 15 minutes last week a tall, hulking old man stood before the curtains at the Dresden Opera while a great German audience hocked him until it was hoarse. He was Composer Richard Strauss and ...

In “Time’s Echo,” the classical music critic Jeremy Eichler examines the life and work of Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich. By Kira Thurman TIME’S ECHO: The ...

The San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Masterworks series officially starts on Saturday, November 4, at 7:30 pm. The venue is The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. This will be the 14th season I’ve covered for the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The usual please-silence-the-phones admonition before the concert was more ...

Two men are competing for the love of the Countess Madeleine. One woos her with music, the other with poetry. While all that wooing is going on, a string ensemble is just offstage rehearsing a sextet.