List of operas by Richard Strauss
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The German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was prolific and long-lived, writing 16 operas from 1892 up until his death in 1949. Strauss "emerged soon after the deaths of Wagner and Brahms as the most important living German composer",[1] and was crucial in inaugurating the musical style of Modernism. His operas were dominant representatives of the genre in his time, particularly his earlier ones: Salome (1905), Elektra (1909), Der Rosenkavalier (1911) and Ariadne auf Naxos (1912). His earliest work, Der Kampf mit dem Drachen (comp. 1876), was a juvenile sketch, and is sometimes not counted as part of his operatic oeuvre; his final opera, Des Esels Schatten [de] (comp. 1947–1949), was unfinished at his death and completed by Karl Haussner in 1964.
List of operas
Period[a] | Title | Genre | Act(s) | Librettist | Premiere | Op.[1] | TrV[1] | |
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Date | Venue | |||||||
1876 | Der Kampf mit dem Drachen | ? | 1 act | Körner | Unperformed | – | 44 | |
1892–93 | Guntram (revised 1940) | Opera[3] | 3 acts | Strauss | 10 May 1894; revised version: 29 October 1940 | Weimar, Grossherzogliches Hoftheater (both versions) | 25 | 168 |
1900–01 | Feuersnot (Fire Famine)[4] | Singgedicht (sung poem) | 1 act | Wolzogen | 21 November 1901 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus | 50 | 203 |
1903–05 | Salome | Musikdrama | 1 act | Strauss, based on Lachmann's German translation of Wilde[b] | 9 December 1905 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus | 54 | 215 |
1906–08 | Elektra | Tragödie | 1 act | Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles's Electra | 25 January 1909 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus | 58 | 223 |
1909–10 | Der Rosenkavalier | Komödie für Musik | 3 acts | Hofmannsthal | 26 January 1911 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus | 59 | 227 |
1911–12 | Ariadne auf Naxos[c] | Oper | 1 act | Hofmannsthal | 25 October 1912 | Stuttgart, Kleines Haus des Hoftheaters | 60 | 228 |
1915–16 | Ariadne auf Naxos, second version | prologue & Oper | 1 act | Hofmannsthal | 4 October 1916 | Vienna, Kaiserliches und Königliches Hof-Operntheater | 60 (II) | 228a |
1914–17 | Die Frau ohne Schatten | Oper | 3 acts | Hofmannsthal, after Goethe | 10 October 1919 | Vienna, Vienna State Opera | 65 | 234 |
1918–23 | Intermezzo | bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen | 2 acts | Strauss | 4 November 1924 | Dresden, Semperoper | 72 | 246 |
1923–27 | Die ägyptische Helena | Oper | 2 acts | Hofmannsthal, after Euripides's Helen | 6 June 1928 | Dresden, Semperoper | 75 | 255 |
14 August 1933 (new version) | Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus | |||||||
1929–32 | Arabella | lyrische Komödie (lyric comedy) | 3 acts | Hofmannsthal, after his works[d] | 1 July 1933 | Dresden, Semperoper | 79 | 263 |
1933–34 | Die schweigsame Frau | komische Oper | 3 acts | Zweig, after Jonson's Epicœne, or The silent woman | 24 June 1935 | Dresden, Semperoper | 80 | 265 |
1935–36 | Friedenstag | Oper | 1 act | Gregor | 24 July 1938 | Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater | 81 | 271 |
1936–37 | Daphne | bukolische Tragödie | 1 act | Gregor | 15 October 1938 | Dresden, Semperoper | 82 | 272 |
1938–40 | Die Liebe der Danae | heitere Mythologie | 3 acts | Gregor | 14 August 1952 | Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus | 83 | 278 |
1940–41 | Capriccio | Konversationsstück für Musik | 1 act | Strauss and Krauss, after Casti | 28 October 1942 | Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater | 85 | 279 |
1947–49 | Des Esels Schatten [de] (completed by Haussner) | Komödie | 6 scenes | Adler, after Wieland[e] | 7 June 1964 | Ettal, Ettal Abbey | – | 294 |
References
Notes
- ^ Period during which the opera was written.
- ^ Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.
- ^ To be played after Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière.
- ^ After his story Lucidor, Figuren zu einer ungeschriebenen Komödie (1910) and the comic sketch Der Fiaker als Graf (1925).
- ^ Wieland's novel Die Geschichte der Abderiten.
Citations
- ^ a b c Gilliam & Youmans 2001.
- ^ Information is from Murray (2002), unless otherwise noted.
- ^ Osborne 1988, p. 1.
- ^ Osborne 1988, p. 25.
Sources
- Gilliam, Bryan; Youmans, Charles (2001). "Strauss, Richard". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40117. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Murray, David (2002) [1992]. "Strauss, Richard (opera)". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904818. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Osborne, Charles (1988). The Complete Operas of Richard Strauss. North Pomfret: Trafalgar Square Publishing. ISBN 978-0-943955-06-3.
- Schuh, Willi (1982). Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years 1864-1898. Translated by Whittall, Mary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-24104-5.
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- Guntram (1894)
- Feuersnot (1901)
- Salome (1905)
- Elektra (1909)
- Der Rosenkavalier (1911)
- Ariadne auf Naxos (1912/16)
- Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919)
- Intermezzo (1924)
- Die ägyptische Helena (1928)
- Arabella (1933)
- Die schweigsame Frau (1935)
- Friedenstag (1938)
- Daphne (1938)
- Die Liebe der Danae (1940)
- Capriccio (1942)
- Josephslegende (1914)
- Schlagobers (1924)
- Verklungene Feste (1940)
- Symphony No. 1 (1880)
- Violin Concerto (1881–82)
- Horn Concerto No. 1 (1882–83)
- Symphony No. 2 (1883–84)
- Burleske (1885–86)
- Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1911–17)
- Dance suite from keyboard pieces by François Couperin (1923)
- Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare (1924)
- Olympische Hymne (1936)
- Japanese Festival Music (1940)
- Divertimento for chamber orchestra after keyboard pieces by Couperin (1941)
- Horn Concerto No. 2 (1942)
- Metamorphosen (1945)
- Oboe Concerto (1945)
- Duet concertino for clarinet and bassoon (1947)
- Aus Italien (1886)
- Macbeth (1888)
- Don Juan (1888)
- Death and Transfiguration (1889)
- Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895)
- Also sprach Zarathustra (1896)
- Don Quixote (1897)
- Ein Heldenleben (1898)
- Symphonia Domestica (1903)
- An Alpine Symphony (1911–15)
- Piano Sonata (1881)
- Cello Sonata in F major (1883)
- Piano Quartet (1884–1885)
- Violin Sonata (1888)
- Enoch Arden (1897)
- "Zueignung" (1885)
- "Die Nacht" (1885)
- "Allerseelen" (1885)
- "Winternacht" (1886)
- "Ständchen" (1886)
- "Ruhe, meine Seele!" (1894)
- "Cäcilie" (1894)
- "Heimliche Aufforderung" (1894)
- "Morgen!" (1894)
- "Traum durch die Dämmerung" (1895)
- "Sehnsucht" (1896)
- "Der Arbeitsmann" (1898)
- "Befreit" (1898)
- "Notturno" (1899)
- "Des Dichters Abendgang" (1900)
- "Freundliche Vision" (1900)
- "Frühlingsfeier" (1906)
- Brentano Lieder (1918)
- Der Krämerspiegel (1918)
- Four Last Songs (1948)
- Wandrers Sturmlied (1884)
- Utan svafvel och fosfor (1889)
- Taillefer (1903)
- Die Tageszeiten (1928)
- Der Rosenkavalier (1926 film)
- Elektra chord
- Treatise on Instrumentation
- Modernism
- Neoclassicism
- Neo-romanticism
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