Richard Strauss's operatic depiction of the trials and tribulations of the landed gentry in 19th-century Vienna, as well as ...

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San Francisco Opera’s staging of Strauss’ “Arabella,” only the third time in its history, opened Tuesday evening in a charming, welcome production as new to the War Memorial Opera House as its ...

In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly discuss Arabella, the last of Strauss’ six collaborations with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Listen to the Met Opera ...

James M. Keller On Saturday night, Santa Fe Opera unveiled the last of the five new productions that make up its 56th season: Richard Strauss’ Arabella, in which an unlikely operetta plot sits ...

San Francisco Opera, which last week unveiled a new production of “Tosca,” one of the most frequent works in its repertoire, is about to reach into the vault of much rarer treasures. It has been years ...

The last collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella is, on first reading, a light piece with elements of operetta. It is, however, marked by personal ...

Opera plots turn on some pretty fanciful actions, but none is more fanciful than the sight of Arabella delivering a glass of water to the man of her dreams over music suggestive, at the very least, of ...