Richard Strauss

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Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and other orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and Metamorphosen. Strauss was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria.

Most Popular Richard Strauss Trailers

Total trailers found: 95

The Hours Trailer (2002)

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.

Strauss: Salome Trailer (2008)

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.

Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (2004)

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.

Strauss: Elektra Trailer (1980)

16 February 1980

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra.

Die Frau ohne Schatten Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Royal Opera House: Salomé Trailer (2008)

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.

Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele Trailer (1970)

16 August 1970

Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (1979)

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.

A View from Space With Heavenly Music Trailer (2006)

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.

The Paradise Garden Trailer (1970)

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.

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos Trailer (2012)

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.

Richard Strauss: Capriccio - Semperoper Dresden Trailer (2021)

08 May 2021

Capriccio is the final opera by Richard Strauss, completed in 1942, and is subtitled "A Conversation Piece for Music.

Strauss: Salome Trailer (2018)

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.

Capriccio - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2018)

24 May 2018

Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (1994)

23 March 1994

Felicity Lott, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, and Kurt Moll star in this production of Richard Strauss' opera, staged in Vienna in 1994.

Elektra Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 1994.

Elektra - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2020)

11 September 2020

Der Rosenkavalier - Bayerische Staatsoper Trailer (2021)

21 March 2021

Elektra - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2020)

15 February 2020

White Nights Trailer (1960)

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.

Salomé Trailer (1992)

02 June 1992

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 2 June 1992.

Salome (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2025) Trailer (2025)

01 January 2025

Richard Strauss' Salome opens the 87th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival. Alexander Soddy conducts; Emma Dante directs the new production.

The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

Documentary about sixteen great conductors of the 20th century.

Salome - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2020)

24 January 2020

Salome Trailer (1997)

29 April 1997

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Elektra Trailer (2010)

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.

Intermezzo - Glyndebourne Trailer (1983)

17 June 1983

Richard Strauss' Intermezzo is an autobiographical piece - a domestic comedy of marital strife, told in fourteen scenes.

Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (1985)

30 March 1985

Live performance, new production season 1984-5. BBC 2 Television relay on 30 March 1985 of performance of February 11.

Arabella Trailer (2007)

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.

Elektra Trailer (2005)

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.

The Power of Speech Trailer (1988)

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.

The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos Trailer (2022)

12 March 2022

The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece.

Dom Juan Trailer (1985)

21 September 1985

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio Trailer (2011)

23 April 2011

Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s sophisticated “Conversation Piece for Music.

Arabella Trailer (1994)

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.

Elektra Trailer (1980)

16 February 1980

The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980

Der Rosenkavalier - Semperoper Trailer (2007)

25 November 2007

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years.

Capriccio - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2013)

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.

Arabella Trailer (2014)

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).

Ariadne auf Naxos - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2014)

05 October 2014

"The Silent Woman" by Richard Strauss @ Berlin State Opera Trailer (2025)

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.

Strauss: Elektra Trailer (2016)

30 April 2016

The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from the ancient Greek myth.

Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (2017)

13 April 2017

In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscorik

Die Frau ohne Schatten Trailer (2011)

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.

The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (2023)

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.

Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (1984)

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.

Elektra Trailer (2020)

01 August 2020

Celebrate the triumphant return of the famed Salzburg Festival with this extraordinary production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, live from the spectacular Felsenreitschule! Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė makes her grand debut on the mythical festival stage in the title role, accompanied by the marvelous Ariane Baumgartner and Asmik Grigorian in the roles of Klytaemnestra and Chrysothemis, respectively.

Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera Trailer (1988)

12 March 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.

Strauss R: Elektra Trailer (2010)

01 August 2010

The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010.

Fruit Stairs Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

Fruit falling down stairs

Die Frau ohne Schatten Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

A production of Die Frau ohne Schatten filmed in Japan.

Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (1998)

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.

Ariane à Naxos Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

A staging of Richard Strauss' opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Katie Mitchell. Recorded at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.

Der Rosenkavalier - Staatsoper Berlin Trailer (2020)

21 March 2020

Aufführung vom 09.02.2020 in derf Staatsoper Berlin. André Heller is staging "Der Rosenkavalier" (his first opera production) at the Berlin State Opera.

The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos Trailer (2003)

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.

Philharmonix "Rock me Amadeus" Trailer (2022)

03 December 2022

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (2009)

31 January 2009

Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 31 January 2009.

The Silent Woman - Fisher Center at Bard Trailer (2022)

22 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.

The Metropolitan Opera: Salome Trailer (2025)

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.