Richard Strauss News

The opening of Cirque du Soleil 's Viva ELVIS is predictable, nostalgic and - if you're familiar with Elvis Presley 's fabled Vegas years - utterly emotional.

Bloomin' Women Artists. Marcia Gold's flowery images are featured. The show opens September 16 with metalwork, paintings and photography from Tucson's best women artists.

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WIND ENSEMBLE ST CUTHBERT'S PARISH CHURCH, EDINBURGH * * * AS PART of the early evening Cl@six series Unwind, this programme gave the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's excellent wind section a chance to show their form with conductor Joan Enric Lluna.

The name of Philippe Jordan, the new music director of the OpA©ra national de Paris, came up recently at Ionarts.

In a program in which riddles were the common thread, it was only fitting that last night's Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would be a head-scratcher at times.

Elektra wields the axe that killed her father, Agamenon - and hopes that it will also kill her mother, Klytaemnestra.

British director Jonathan Kent has a background in dramatic theater in the U.K. 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten' believed to be Richard Strauss's favorite and most musically challenging opera, is coming to the Russian stage for the first time.

On Sunday, Symphony Pro Musica launched its 27th season with typically imaginative programming.

"A Musical Space Odyssey," this weekend's classical series concert by the Nashville Symphony, offers a fascinating and exciting program.

The Szymanowski Quartet offers a FREE concert tomorrow night at 8 PM at the Library of Congress.

Friday, Nov. 5, 1909 Gustav Mahler, the new conductor of a wholly reorganized New York Philharmonic Society, opened the orchestra's 68th season last night at Carnegie Hall with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Franz Liszt.

Deep within the historic Vienna State Opera, Franz Welser-M st is poring over scores used and notated by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, two of its more distinguished former directors.

There's no sound in outer space, but that's not stopping the Nashville Symphony from exploring its cold, dark depths with a program of celestial music as part of its SunTrust Classical Series this week.

The British actor, left, and Czech pianist are teaming up for a fresh interpretation of a classical tear-jerker. Celebrated stage and film actor Michael York will team up with award-winning pianist Libor Novacek to present Richard Strauss' composition for solo piano set to Alfred Tennyson's famous epic poem, Enoch Arden.

What: Altoona Symphony Orchestra's "The Force of Destiny" When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Mishler Theatre, Altoona Tickets: $30, $20 and $10 at www.altoonasymphony.org or 943-2500 The Altoona Symphony Orchestra will continue to explore the human experience with its second concert of the season, "The Force of Destiny." "It's looking into life from ...

Dating back to 1902, the Oxford Symphony Orchestra is one of the city's more venerable institutions.

Future generations will surely be happy to have such DVDs as this one available, allowing folks to see and hear the great artists and orchestras of the late twentieth century .

Elektra is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto, written by Hugo von Hoffsmansthal, is based on the Greek myth.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's newest Naxos CD went beyond the dreams of BPO Music Director JoAnn Falletta.

RICHARD STRAUSS 'S "Rosenkavalier," to be revived on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera , begins with one of the most vivid depictions of sexual ecstasy in music: an orchestral buildup reaching a climax in a brace of whooping French horns.