The pairing of Strauss and Mahler provided a poignant exploration of life’s fleeting beauty with a sense of introspection and ...

The Madison Symphony Orchestra will explore the legacy of two influential composers this weekend through their final works.

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

Sopranos Kirsten Chambers, Marcy Stonikas and Nina Warren are co-starring in Opera’s upcoming ‘Salome’ production ...

Music director Franz Welser-Möst leads performances of Fifth Symphony, Leonore Overture No. 3 and Janáček suite.

A young director tries to remount her mentor's version of the opera "Salome" while dealing with trouble in her personal life, ...

The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director mounting a production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” that increasingly ...

Egoyan is known for conducting projects that examine the psycho-sexual behavior of its characters, a major example being ...

Richard’s formal academic schooling ran parallel to his musical ... The influential pianist, composer and conductor Hans von Bülow took a shine to the young Strauss. When he left his orchestra at ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...