Richard Strauss Archives

Ariadne auf Naxos

Tim Hochstrasser 25/07/2018

As the final opera this season Opera Holland Park presents the second and usually performed version of ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’....

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Ariadne auf Naxos

Mel Cooper 18/07/2018

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most poetical, intellectual, and musically nuanced of operas, a sophisticate treat. Written by...

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Salome

Tim Hochstrasser 09/01/2018

Salome was Strauss’ breakthrough opera and it has all the hallmarks of his early style – lush voluptuous writing for...

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Arabella

Aparna Halpé 16/10/2017

The COC begins its 2017 season with a magnificent premier of Richard Strauss’s well beloved Arabella.

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Der Rosenkavalier

Owen Davies 03/07/2017

osenkavalier is a wonderful opera. It has some of the most superb music ever written for women’s voices and it...

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Salome

Paul Meltzer 30/12/2016

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts disgustingly. That seems to be the message behind Richard Strauss's opera.

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Der Rosenkavalier

Jonathan Ben Garcia 20/12/2016

he Royal Opera House’s Der Rosenkavalier is lavish and eye-catching. This production is set in the year of the opera’s...

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Intermezzo

Owen Davies 12/06/2015

his is a difficult opera to like. Strauss wrote his great operas between 1905 and the start of the Great...

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The Maids

Re Chicchinella

Firebird

Fascinating Aida

Interviews

Anna Popplewell & Olivia Hurton in conversation

Pavel Šporcl’s Magic Touch

Scholars, Poets, Lovers: The Invention of Love

Malicho Vaca Valenzuela in conversation with Thibault Elie

Features

Fiddler on the Roof

Rigoletto

Your Lie in April

In Conversation with Matt Hartley

Festivals

Ermione

The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Bianca e Falliero (Bianca and Falliero)

The Barber of Seville

Ariadne auf Naxos

Ariadne auf Naxos

Salome

Arabella

Der Rosenkavalier

Salome

Der Rosenkavalier

Intermezzo