Strauss News

Last week the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that transit officials have started to play Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Strauss and Handel at the Lake Street light rail station in an effort to dissuade criminal behavior.

The winning dress by The School of Fashion Design student Kowoon Jeong explored the depths of emotion in Debussy's music.

For concert programmers, Valentine's Day is fraught with difficulties and possibilities.

Opera may be 400 years old but the art form appears to be thriving in Perth, with Elektra one of the hottest tickets at this year's festival.

Richard Strauss 's lavish romantic comedy returns to the Coliseum in David McVicar 's much travelled production, an entirely traditional presentation of a piece that revels in the nostalgic glamour of Vienna in its 18th-century heyday.

I had my chance to review Saturday night's San Diego Opera production of "Salome" at the Civic Theatre, and although I liked the soprano and the rest of the cast, I had some issues with the work's pacing and the orchestra's lack of assertiveness.

At Torontoist we love Q&As and profiles, but sometimes asking a whole bunch of people the same set of questions can be even more revealing.

Guest conductor Roberto Minczuk will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg, Mozart's Symphony No.

Guntram Feuersnot Salome Elektra Der Rosenkavalier Ariadne auf Naxos Die Frau ohne Schatten Intermezzo Die gyptische Helena Arabella Die schweigsame Frau Friedenstag Daphne Die Liebe der Danae Capriccio Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

For more than 20 years, soprano Renee Fleming has been an ideal tour guide to both the familiar and the obscure for audiences around the world.

MIT Institute Professor John H. Harbison had his Sixth Symphony premiered at the Boston Symphony Orchestra last week.