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 ...

The Department of Music at Hope College will celebrate composer Richard Strauss’ 160th birth year with a “Richard Strauss Gala Concert” on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although his music is popular, Strauss remains an enigma to some and a polarizing figure for others. To mark the composer's sesquicentennial,... Music by Richard Strauss is heard in symphony halls and ...

Die Westfaelische Landeszeitung, Bavarian Nazi paper, today praised in the highest terms Richard Strauss, Austro-German composer and conductor known for his Nazi sympathies, for having withdrawn a ...

This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

The Arkansas Symphony takes the stage Saturday and Sunday at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance Hall for the fifth concert of the orchestra's 2021-22 Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks with a ...

Here's some very early Richard Strauss — the Piano Trio number one, from 1877, written when the composer was only 13. Wolfgang Sawallisch is joined by a group of colleagues in Munich in the final ...