Richard Strauss

The Metropolitan Opera: Salome (2025)

Met performances of Strauss's white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe's leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier (2023)

A dream cast assembles for Strauss's grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bas ...

Philharmonix "Rock me Amadeus" (2022)

Salomé (Opéra de Paris) (2022)

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law's palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by Herod who is afraid of him. Obsessed by this en ...

The Silent Woman - Fisher Center at Bard (2022)

The plot is almost identical to Donizetti's Don Pasquale except that the "old man" is not a fool here and his relationship with his nephew, Henry, is loving. It is more human and tender but still has bite. All the old man, Sir Morosus, wants is silence. R ...

Strauss: Salome (2018)

The story is set at the beginning of the Christian era on a large terrace of Herod's palace, during the reign of Herod Antipas. At night, on a terrace of the palace, Salome, Herod's stepdaughter, is gazed at passionately by Narraboth, captain of the guard. ...

The Opera House (2017)

In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera's storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an importan ...

Der Rosenkavalier (2017)

In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera's subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask ...

Der Rosenkavalier (2015)

Comic romance with a philosophical twist? This popular opera combines it all to tell the story of a revoltingly greedy man who tries to get his hands on a young woman's fortune. ...

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (2014)

With their "musical comedy" in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his brilliant librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created the most popular of all their works and one of the most frequently performed operas of all time. Disguised as a refined comedy, ...

Arabella (2014)

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orchestral, operatic and lied master composer, Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Arabella (premiered 1933, Dresden) was the last of the half dozen Strauss works to ...

Elektra (2013)

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event of these last years in Aix-en-Provence. This production is leaded by three amazing singers: the German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius gave a tremend ...

Capriccio (2013)

Richard Strauss' last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way. Which came first the words or the music? That is the question Strauss and his librettist Clemens Krauss address throug ...

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos (2012)

Flemings voice might have been made for Ariadne and she achieved a great personal triumph in this production: The chief glory of the evening was hearing Renee Fleming, the Straussian soprano par excellence, making her role debut as Ariadne… As the posses ...

Ariadne Auf Naxos (2012)

Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the wealthiest man in Vienna, who has booked both a comedy burlesque act and a serious opera group for entertainm ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten (2011)

This performance of the Richard Strauss opera Frau ohne Schatten, recorded live and in high definition, features vocalists like Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, and Wolfgang Koch in the leading roles. ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio (2011)

Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss's sophisticated "Conversation Piece for Music." She is being courted by two men: Joseph Kaiser sings the composer, Flamand, and Russell Braun is Olivier, the poet ...

Strauss R: Elektra (2010)

The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as Elektra, with Eva-Maria Westbroek as Chrysothemis, Waltraud Meier as Klytämnestra, Robert Gambill as Aegisth, and ...

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier (2010)

This production of Strauss's most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O'Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of th ...

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier (2009)

Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 31 January 2009. Renée Fleming is the Marschallin, Diana Damrau is Sophie, Sophie Koch is Octavian, Franz Hawlata is Baron Ochs, Franz ...

Strauss: Salome (2008)

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila's sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde's petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss's groundbreakin ...

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen (2008)

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra (2008)

Royal Opera House: Salomé (2008)

David McVicar's powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has s ...

Der Rosenkavalier (2007)

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed mo ...

Arabella (2007)

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Arabella is determined to marry for love, not wealth - against the wishes of her impo ...

Rostropovich Life & Art (2007)

Released as a memorial for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who passed away on 27 April 2007, this DVD contains one bonafide cello concerto, the Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, and two tone poems with prominent cello parts, Ernest Bloch ...

A View from Space With Heavenly Music (2006)

As viewed and filmed in High Definition by astronauts on the space shuttle, this is the Planet Earth as few have seen before. One hour of High Definition visual space scenery, coupled with eight separate one hour soundtracks of the world's most treasured c ...

Fruit Stairs (2005)

Fruit falling down stairs ...

Der Rosenkavalier (2004)

This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg. It stars Adrianne Pieczonka as Feldmarschallin, Franz Hawlata as Baron Ochs, Angelika Kirchschlager as ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos (2003)

Elijah Moshinsky's witty production deftly walks the line between the lighthearted humor and the profound philosophical underpinnings of Strauss and Hofmannsthal's opera, masterfully conducted here by Met Music Director James Levine. Deborah Voigt stars as ...

The Hours (2002)

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment o ...

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (1998)

Among the greatest operas in Richard Strauss's oeuvre, "Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose)" spins the tale of the Marschallin (Elizabeth Whitehouse), a dowager struggling with old age. Making the transition more difficult is Octavian (Ildiko Koml ...

Salome (1997)

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. ...

Arabella (1994)

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. ...

Elektra (1994)

The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 1994. Hildegard Behrens stars as Elektra, with Deborah Voigt as Chrysothemis, Brigitte Fassbaender as Klytämnestra, Donald McIntyre as Orest, and ...

Der Rosenkavalier (1994)

Felicity Lott, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, and Kurt Moll star in this production of Richard Strauss' opera, staged in Vienna in 1994. A romantic comedy of errors. Princess von Werdenberg must hide her affair with Octavian from her family; when he disguises himse ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten (1994)

A production of Die Frau ohne Schatten filmed in Japan. ...

Salomé (1992)

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 2 June 1992. ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten (1992)

Elektra (1989)

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of ...

The Power of Speech (1988)

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the ori ...

Ariadne auf Naxos (1988)

Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James King. Kathleen Battle delivers the coloratura fireworks of Zerbinetta, the leader of a commedia dell'arte tro ...

Der Rosenkavalier (1985)

Live performance, new production season 1984-5. BBC 2 Television relay on 30 March 1985 of performance of February 11. ...

Der Rosenkavalier (1984)

A production of Strauss' opera 'Der Rosenkavalier' performed at the Saltzburg Festival in 1984. Includes the Vienna State Opera Choir, the Philharmonic Orchestra with singers Wilma Lipp, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Agnes Baltsa. ...

Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen (1984)

Intermezzo - Glyndebourne (1983)

Richard Strauss' Intermezzo is an autobiographical piece - a domestic comedy of marital strife, told in fourteen scenes. John Cox's stylish production is set in the 1920s and stars Felicity Lott as the volatile Christine Storch. The splended art nouveau se ...

Elektra (1981)

Strauss's opera adapted to the screen by Gotz Friedrich. ...

Strauss: Elektra (1980)

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives for one ...

Elektra (1980)

The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980 ...

Der Rosenkavalier (1979)

This performance of Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier (1979) features the vocal talents of Gwyneth Jones in the lead role; recorded at the National Theatre Munich. ...

Salome (1974)

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear. Stratas inhabits the role, exploring the character's sensuousness as she vainly woos Joc ...

Dynamite Chicken (1971)

A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement. ...

The Paradise Garden (1970)

A German Romantic diplom film from HFF München after E.T.A.Hoffmann. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1975. ...

Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. Strauss is depicted in ...

Eros, O Basileus (1967)

Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment, for self. The objects he touches - books, paintings - can be seen as icons of the creative spirit; there is a ...

Ariadne auf Naxos (1965)

Opera by Strauss ...

White Nights (1960)

Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it is about a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her l ...

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen (2008)

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra (2008)

The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past (1993)

Documentary about sixteen great conductors of the 20th century. ...

Elektra (1989)

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of ...

Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele (1970)