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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Richard Strauss's epic fairytale live at the New York Met, starring Elza van den Heever, Lise Lindstrom, Nina Stemme, Michael Volle and Russell Thomas.

The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann cover the ...

The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has never been equalled. For his remaining 40 years, while certainly not resting on ...

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the ...

A groundbreaking production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music will be staged in London on Thursday ... Its soundtrack is music by 19th century German composer Richard ...

Richard Strauss’ revolutionary score and scandalous Oscar Wilde–inspired drama took the world by storm at its premiere and continues to wow audiences today. Catherine Naglestad makes her Met ...