What do you get when you combine a masquerade mask, a pocket watch, an extraordinary amount of champagne, and the most ...

Recent stagings of classics like “La Traviata” and rarities like “Intermezzo” are among the highlights. Holiday weeks, quiet ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The University Musical Society will welcome Maestro Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra ...

The composer Richard Strauss has a complicated legacy. Beginning in 1933, Strauss served as the President of the Reichsmusikkammer, the Nazi Reich’s Chamber of Music, a damning collaboration with the ...

San Francisco Opera Presents Strauss and Hofmannsthal's "Die Frau ohne San Francisco Opera presents Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman ...

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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 ...

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 ...