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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Opening Friday, July 22, Richard Strauss's comic opera, The Silent Woman ...

From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...

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Stefan Zweig, el conocido novelista austríaco y judío, colaboró con Richard Strauss en su Die Schweigsame Frau (La mujer silenciosa) en 1935 y, después, le sugirió al compositor una ópera basada en ...

“Guntram” was Richard Strauss’s first opera. Like many first operas by composers who later became famous (“Oberto,” “Die Feen,” “Apollo et Hyacinthus”), it’s a little raw around the edges, and it ...

No, what a lot of opera queens flock to is a corner of the repertoire that can be best labeled “guilty pleasures,” pieces we all know are of dubious artistic quality—but what fun to listen! the ...

Thirty is not old in opera. An art form that’s been around for more than three centuries, it is also an art form that takes the long view. Classic 1950s and 1960s opera recordings of standard ...

Salzburg’s great music festival is traditionally dedicated to Mozart. For 30 years, thousands of visitors have flocked each summer to the ancient town which sprawls under its towering 11th Century ...