Most Popular Richard Strauss Trailers
Total trailers found: 81
11 October 2008
It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine.
06 August 2004
This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg.
16 February 1980
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra.
28 February 2008
David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference.
01 January 1979
This performance of Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier (1979) features the vocal talents of Gwyneth Jones in the lead role; recorded at the National Theatre Munich.
06 June 2006
As viewed and filmed in High Definition by astronauts on the space shuttle, this is the Planet Earth as few have seen before.
27 December 2002
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears.
07 October 1970
A German Romantic diplom film from HFF München after E.T.A.Hoffmann. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1975.
21 August 2012
Flemings voice might have been made for Ariadne and she achieved a great personal triumph in this production: The chief glory of the evening was hearing Renee Fleming, the Straussian soprano par excellence, making her role debut as Ariadne… As the possessor of what is, possibly, the most beautiful soprano voice in the world, she put her vocal treasures in the service of an empathic, nuanced interpretation of the role.
06 October 1981
Strauss's opera adapted to the screen by Gotz Friedrich.
01 January 1994
The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 1994.
01 January 1993
Documentary about sixteen great conductors of the 20th century.
24 July 2022
The plot is almost identical to Donizetti’s Don Pasquale except that the “old man” is not a fool here and his relationship with his nephew, Henry, is loving.
29 April 1997
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
10 April 1974
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear.
27 January 2010
The richness and intensity of Richard Strauss's masterful one-act opera, in Herbert Wernicke's compelling production, vividly portrays the relentless pursuit and ecstatic realization of vengeance.
17 June 1983
Richard Strauss' Intermezzo is an autobiographical piece - a domestic comedy of marital strife, told in fourteen scenes.
30 March 1985
Live performance, new production season 1984-5. BBC 2 Television relay on 30 March 1985 of performance of February 11.
05 January 2025
The composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is still a shining light today. But behind his radiant aura lies a dark shadow.
21 March 2007
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.
15 April 2023
A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart.
30 November 2005
The Martin Kušej production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Opernhaus Zurich on 30 November and 4 December 2005.
01 January 1994
Felicity Lott, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, and Kurt Moll star in this production of Richard Strauss' opera, staged in Vienna in 1994.
23 April 2011
Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s sophisticated “Conversation Piece for Music.
12 June 2013
Richard Strauss' last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way.
19 February 1960
Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it is about a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness.
03 November 1994
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.
16 February 1980
The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980
24 July 2025
Ageing misfit Sir Morosus lives alone in an old-style apartment in Charlottenburg in Berlin. He is wealthy, but also lonely and a bit grumpy.
29 July 2011
This performance of the Richard Strauss opera Frau ohne Schatten, recorded live and in high definition, features vocalists like Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, and Wolfgang Koch in the leading roles.
02 August 1984
A production of Strauss' opera 'Der Rosenkavalier' performed at the Saltzburg Festival in 1984. Includes the Vienna State Opera Choir, the Philharmonic Orchestra with singers Wilma Lipp, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Agnes Baltsa.
01 August 2010
The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010.
25 November 2007
The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years.
01 January 2005
Fruit falling down stairs
16 January 1998
Among the greatest operas in Richard Strauss's oeuvre, "Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose)" spins the tale of the Marschallin (Elizabeth Whitehouse), a dowager struggling with old age.
01 January 1994
A production of Die Frau ohne Schatten filmed in Japan.
01 January 2018
A staging of Richard Strauss' opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Katie Mitchell. Recorded at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
03 April 2003
Elijah Moshinsky’s witty production deftly walks the line between the lighthearted humor and the profound philosophical underpinnings of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s opera, masterfully conducted here by Met Music Director James Levine.
17 June 2014
2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orchestral, operatic and lied master composer, Richard Strauss (1864-1949).
31 January 2009
Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 31 January 2009.
17 May 2025
Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years.
01 September 2012
Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Ariadne auf Naxos was filmed at the acclaimed Salzburg Festival in 2012.
28 July 2018
The story is set at the beginning of the Christian era on a large terrace of Herod’s palace, during the reign of Herod Antipas.
01 September 2014
With their “musical comedy” in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his brilliant librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created the most popular of all their works and one of the most frequently performed operas of all time.
31 December 1988
Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.
15 February 1970
Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime.
12 March 2023
Daphne lives in a world that is foreign to her. She is the embodiment of nature and finds human behaviour and desire alien.
01 November 1988
Production of the State Opera Dresden 1989, directed by Joachim Herz
23 March 2023
At first glance, Hofmannsthal's libretto ARABELLA is a comedy of mistaken identity which, had it been composed by Rossini, could have been a snappy buffo opera.
01 October 2017
In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five decades.
13 May 2017
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscorik
01 January 1988
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James King.
20 January 1971
A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement.
02 June 1992
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 2 June 1992.
