Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to ...

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 ...

THREE months after the world premiere of his “Elektra,” Richard Strauss reported to the librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, that a performance in Milan had been a “colossal success— biggest receipts of ...