Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more.

The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as ...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on ...

The Adelaide Festival has appointed Matthew Lutton, longtime head of Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, as its artistic director ...

Melbourne theatre boss Matthew Lutton has been appointed the next artistic director of the nation’s leading international ...

Inspired by two of the canon’s most shocking operas, Strauss’s Elektra and Berg’s Wozzeck, Saariaho’s Innocence is an unflinching reflection on the senseless violence of our modern age.

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949 ... of dissonance and dramatic shock with his operas “Salome” and “Elektra” in the first decade of the 20th.

“Sometimes it can be very challenging. Like right now, maybe about a few days ago… she sent me music to an aria from Strauss’ Elektra opera, and she was like, We should do this. And I’m li ...

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The opera and symphonic conductor crams this ... In 1997, the self-confessed workaholic conducted Elektra, Strauss’s bloody depiction of revenge and matricide, in Berlin when she was eight ...