Richard Strauss may have been the most significant composer of the 20th century’s first half, but his music often sounds as if he were looking backward and forward at the same time. He was part ...
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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A romantic comedy of errors about a young woman who wishes to marry for love ...
In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly discuss Arabella, the last of Strauss’ six collaborations with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Listen to the Met Opera ...
James M. Keller On Saturday night, Santa Fe Opera unveiled the last of the five new productions that make up its 56th season: Richard Strauss’ Arabella, in which an unlikely operetta plot sits ...
San Francisco Opera, which last week unveiled a new production of “Tosca,” one of the most frequent works in its repertoire, is about to reach into the vault of much rarer treasures. It has been years ...
The last collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella is, on first reading, a light piece with elements of operetta. It is, however, marked by personal ...
A tale of romantic idealism and moral bankruptcy, Arabella hinges on the market value of a beautiful face. Set in a single evening, the opera follows the efforts of the profligate Count Waldner to ...