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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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 ...

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San Francisco Opera’s staging of Strauss’ “Arabella,” only the third time in its history, opened Tuesday evening in a charming, welcome production as new to the War Memorial Opera House as its ...

Arabella is a money story more than a love story, I realize halfway through Tim Albery's elegant production that opened at the Canadian Opera Company Thursday, and the last of the Strauss-Hofmannsthal ...

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 ...

Opera plots turn on some pretty fanciful actions, but none is more fanciful than the sight of Arabella delivering a glass of water to the man of her dreams over music suggestive, at the very least, of ...