The composer Richard Strauss has a complicated legacy. Beginning in 1933, Strauss served as the President of the Reichsmusikkammer, the Nazi Reich’s Chamber of Music, a damning collaboration with the ...
From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...