Olin Downes, music critic for the New York Times, made a point of attending the Richard Strauss Festspiele at Frankfort-am-Main the last days of August; and it was his chance to watch ...

An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss, depicts a dawn to dusk climb up a mountain. We've rounded up two Alpine Symphony experts to be our trail guides up the mountain. Semyon Bychkov is conducting ...

One of the last wishes of the late Richard Strauss was that Kirsten Flagstad should be the soprano to introduce the four songs which he finished in 1948, the year before his death at 85 (TIME, Sept.

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragic plays and tragic reality”, said the prophetic protagonist in ...

WHEN I was born, Richard Strauss was fortyeight and was composing the second version of Ariadne. I have wondered for most of my life what happened in the second half of his creative period, what ...

"I would like to admit all [Richard] Strauss operas to whichever purgatory punishes triumphant banality," Igor Stravinsky once said. "Their musical substance is cheap and poor; it cannot interest a ...