Richard Strauss News

Union City Chamber Players returns to St. John's for its fourth performance this season, a Father's Day program celebrating family ties.

The best way to learn is to do. That is the goal of the National Orchestral Institute, the summer apprenticeship program for young classical musicians at the University of Maryland.

The Richard Strauss discography has always proved problematic when it comes to Die Schweigsame Frau , his ill-fated 11th opera , first performed in Dresden in 1935, and inseparable, in many ways, from the vexed circumstances of its creation.

The 2012-2013 Cambridge Symphony Orchestra season was a huge undertaking but in the end, it was an amazing season to share with our wonderful and devoted audience.

Strauss's opera is streaming here on the Guardian from 7pm on 4 June. New to the piece? Gen up on it with Tom Service's guide to Strauss's rich and masterful mix of musical smoke and mirrors.

Richard Strauss once declared, "I don't see why I shouldn't write a symphony about myself.

For the first time, a live opera screening is coming to Strode Theatre, in Street, from the Glyndebourne Festival.

The collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal was one of the most brilliant and fruitful in operatic history, but it wasn't always a match made in heaven, as the gestation of Ariadne auf Naxos demonstrates.

THE glittering Glyndebourne Festival will be beamed to Neath's Gwyn Hall cinema over the next few months to save opera lovers the drive to Sussex.

The dour double concerto of Brahms, coupled with the swashbuckling Don Juan tone poem by Richard Strauss and the ever-elegant Enigma Variations by Elgar - a great combination of works but, nevertheless, asking a lot of the audience.

Why should GIF be pronounced like "giraffe," and not, say, like "gift"? One defense of the correct pronunciation is that, since it's an acronym created by Steve Wilhite , its parent can decide how it should be said, just as countless parents have determined that their creation is called "Saundra" and not "Sandra," even if it's spelled the latter ... (more)