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’. It is an exceptionally suc...
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 Hugo von Hoffmansthal a...
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 orchestra and the soprano voice a...
Arabella Aparna Halpé 16/10/2017 The COC begins its 2017 season with a magnificent premier of Richard Strauss’s well beloved Arabella.
Der Rosenkavalier Owen Davies 03/07/2017 Rosenkavalier is a wonderful opera. It has some of the most superb music ever written for women’s voices and it has a central theme that strikes chord...
Salome Paul Meltzer 30/12/2016 Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts disgustingly. That seems to be the message behind Richard Strauss's opera.
Der Rosenkavalier Jonathan Ben Garcia 20/12/2016 The Royal Opera House’s Der Rosenkavalier is lavish and eye-catching. This production is set in the year of the opera’s composition 1911 and as suc...
Intermezzo Owen Davies 12/06/2015 This is a difficult opera to like. Strauss wrote his great operas between 1905 and the start of the Great War – after 1914 he struggled to find the su...
