Travelling to Garsington for a summer opera spectacular is always a treat. The stunning setting, together with an evening of exemplary opera, seldom disappoints. Der Rosenkavalier, a late-Romantic ...

I say new production, but in many ways this Rosenkavalier is an elaboration of Carsen’s 2004 staging for Salzburg. Paul Steinberg’s sets make much more than a nod towards the originals by Peter Pabst, ...

“Louder, louder!” Richard Strauss is supposed to have exhorted his orchestra players according to the best-known anecdote about him, “I can still hear the singers.” If this famous story is not ...

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It’s not the last word on a baroque confection with depth – which production is? - but it creates anew without losing sight of the essential themes. The context could hardly be classier. Was it for ...

GOOD MORNING: “You will not see two naked ladies on the stage” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier,” Edgar Baitzel, artistic director of the L.A. Opera told me. A ...

Sir Simon Rattle takes the podium to conduct Richard Strauss’s glittering score. Star soprano Camilla Nylund is the worldly Marschallin, with the outstanding mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená as her ...

Richard Strauss’ best-loved opera is a delicate balance between genuinely moving emotion and slapstick farce. The beautiful, aristocratic Marschallin has found love with 17-year-old Count Octavian but ...

Glamorous dud Renée Fleming is the only weak spot in a bracing new production of the Richard Strauss sex comedy. Günther Groissböck (left) deftly steals the show from Renée Fleming in ‘Der ...

If asked to choose an opera in the category of “most satisfying,” I would choose Richard Strauss’s brilliant Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose, 1911). Elīna Garanča as Octavian and Renée ...