SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Part fairy tale, part psychodrama, Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” (The Woman Without a Shadow) calls for three big-voiced sopranos who can do justice to a long and ...

Richard Strauss's operatic depiction of the trials and tribulations of the landed gentry in 19th-century Vienna, as well as ...

A scandalous dance and a shocking kiss. Madison Opera opens its 62nd season with Richard Strauss' Salome on Friday, November 4 at 8pm and Sunday, November 6 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture ...

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde and edited by the composer. The opera is ...

The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) presents Richard Strauss' rarely-heard one-act opera Daphne on March 23, 8 pm, as part of its Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall. Music director Leon Botstein leads ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Richard Strauss' 'Elektra,' with soprano Nina Stemme in the title role. The same production is being presented by the Dallas Opera, but with Marjorie Owens as ...

Der Rosenkavalier or The Knight of the Rose is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

Salzburg’s great music festival is traditionally dedicated to Mozart. For 30 years, thousands of visitors have flocked each summer to the ancient town which sprawls under its towering 11th Century ...

What happens when two performing troupes — one a deadly serious classical opera company and the other a lowbrow comedy outfit — suddenly find themselves sharing the same stage? That’s the premise ...