The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has never been equalled. For his remaining 40 years, while certainly not resting on ...

The Berlin Philharmonic in Strauss's most daring opera, with Nina Stemme in the title role as the tortured daughter whose mother Clytemnestra has murdered her father Agamemnon. Show more The ...

This is the first comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's Arabella. The opening chapters explore the ... motivation of the drama and an impression of the musical shape and substance of the opera.