Richard Strauss – The Architect of Operatic Shock and Grace

Richard Strauss – The Architect of Operatic Shock and Grace

Strauss bent the late-Romantic orchestra into modern theater: tone poems that swagger and wink (Don Juan, Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel) and operas that blaze and melt (Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier). From Elektra’s cataclysm to Rosenkavalier’s waltz-lit tenderness and the valedictory hush of the Four Last Songs, he turned orchestration into psychology.

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