LEWES, ENGLAND -- Wagner was late in coming to Glyndebourne. The festival's staging of ''Tristan und Isolde'' eight years ago was widely viewed as a bold incursion into new territory. Yet had events taken a slightly different turn, Wagner's operas might have complemented the black-tie picnics on the manicured lawns of the Christie estate in East...
These days people may forget that Fabio Luisi, the Metropolitan Opera's principal guest conductor, made his acclaimed company debut in 2005 in Verdi's ''Don Carlo.'' In the last couple of seasons Mr. Luisi has appeared at the company mostly as a pinch-hitter for James Levine. In April he stepped in again for an ailing Mr. Levine and conducted a...
GRAZ, AUSTRIA -- ''Something is going on, but we don't know what it is,'' cry three downtrodden brothers of the humble dyer Barak when supernatural happenings mysteriously intrude in ''Die Frau ohne Schatten.'' At least one commentator has suggested that their observation might sum up a listener's reaction to Richard Strauss's fanciful,...
Richard Strauss (11. juni 1864 i München - 8. september 1949 i Garmisch-Partenkirchen) var tysk komponist og dirigent.
Hans mest popurlære orkesterværker er Also sprach Zarathustra og variationerne over Don Quixote. Har også skrevet
to ungdomssymfonier og ti symfoniske digtninge som Ein Heldenleben, Tod und Verklärung, Till Eulenspiegel opus 28 fra 1895 og Don Juan.
15 operaer som Salome, Elektra, Rosenkavaleren fra 1911, Ariadne på Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten og Arabella.
Balletterne: Josephslegende og Schlagobers samt ca. 200 sange som
Vier letzte Lieder først udgivet i 1948.