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

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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 ...

As part of the Arts and Humanities Colloquium series, Colgate University Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Kyle Hutchinson gave a presentation Tuesday, Feb. 18 on his analysis of three pieces of ...

We began with my effusions over the performance of Strauss’s second Viennese opera Arabella I’d heard him conduct in Milan – the only other opera house he would leave Munich for (he turned down ...

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.