Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The capstone of the artistic partnership between Strauss and librettist Hugo von ...

3 Joan Baez To Join SWEET RELIEF Benefit Concert Honoring Taj Mahal In San Francisco A romantic comedy of errors about a young woman who wishes to marry for love rather than money, Arabella is set ...

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 ...

If Minnesota Opera seldom ventures into the German repertory — the company has taken no notice of Richard Wagner's bicentennial — the reason is not lack of capacity. Witness the assured, deftly ...

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 ...

Composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal produced an instant classic with "Der Rosenkavalier" in 1911. Twenty years later, they produced a bookend to "Rosenkavalier," and while ...

Richard Strauss's Arabella is an opera about sex, love, money - and one of the most horrendous families ever put on stage. It was written during the collapse of the Weimar Republic and given its ...

Strauss’ romance brings the glamour of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a production by legendary Otto Schenk. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as Arabella, a young ...