This January, Seattle Opera continues its recent tradition of offering concert presentations of rarely heard operas (Samson and Delilah in Concert '23, Les Troyens in Concert '25) with Richard Strauss ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The University Musical Society will welcome Maestro Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra ...

Renee Fleming continues to surpass herself. The American soprano has been hailed for her creamy tone and easy lyricism and for the warm, distinctly personal elegance of her stage presence. Still, I ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Richard Strauss's late, seldom-performed opera "Daphne" is being given its belated New York stage premiere by the New York City Opera, a major musical event of the new fall ...

For much of the 20th century, Richard Strauss was one of those composers, like Puccini or Tchaikovsky, who was loved by the public but out of fashion with the highbrows, who favored more cerebral ...

The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) presents Richard Strauss' rarely-heard one-act opera Daphne on March 23, 8 pm, as part of its Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall. Music director Leon Botstein leads ...

From photos taken at earlier performances in Glasgow and the Lammermuir Festival back in September, the worry was that director Emma Jenkins’ thoughts would tend too much to the troubled 1930s in ...

An opera about a girl who turns into a tree does not, on the face of it, sound especially promising. But that’s the heroine’s fate in Richard Strauss’s Daphne, written in 1937, and that final scene is ...

The Greek myth of Daphne is irresistibly operatic. At once compact, fanciful, erotic and hauntingly tragic, the story of a woman loved by a god and transformed into a laurel tree when she resists him ...