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 [lower-alpha 1] | 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 [lower-alpha 2] | 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 [lower-alpha 3] | 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 [lower-alpha 4] | 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 [lower-alpha 5] | 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
- 1 2 3 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 .