For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Although he did not coin the term, Richard Strauss wrote the book on "tone poems," music that tells a story or describes a place. His descriptive and programmatic works are so vivid you can hear night ...

A prominent personality in the music world celebrated his 60th birthday; City of Vienna made this the occasion for a gala week. Honors both frothy and substantial were recklessly poured upon the head ...

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 ...

Ageing misfit Sir Morosus lives alone in an old-style apartment in Charlottenburg in Berlin. He is wealthy, but also lonely and a bit grumpy. Then his nephew Henry moves in with him and his life takes ...

WHEN I was born, Richard Strauss was fortyeight and was composing the second version of Ariadne. I have wondered for most of my life what happened in the second half of his creative period, what ...

Richard Strauss was especially fond of the French horn. His father played the instrument, so the sound was in his blood from a young age. Before we hear some of Strauss's more intense music later, ...