A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

The move was preceded by a wave of resignations of prosecutors, each refusing to sign the motion and some criticizing the ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 13: ...

An estimate made by an expert right after the incident put the ship 500 miles from Halifax and 70 miles south of the Grand ...

They stitched the delicate and the grave with finesse. They displayed a fastidious ... It is Wagner that Davidsen has been currently presenting to great acclaim, as well as Richard Strauss. A few ...

“I’ve seen some people try to move over to the nonprofit sector from the private sector,” says Richard Schlosberg ... “There was a guy from Levi Strauss who said, ‘I don’t want it to say on my ...

The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Richard Strauss must have suspected that he would always be mistaken for another composer. How else do you explain “Also Sprach Zarathustra” — the piece that contains his ...

For his new production at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, director Tobias Kratzer has transformed Richard Strauss’s monumental opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) from a ...

The right wing of the horseshoe-shaped stone, meant to protect a grave from strong winds, had been carved into stairs. The rest of the grave now served as the foundation of a squatter home.