One May morning in 1902, Pauline Strauss opened a telegram addressed to her husband. "I waited for you as usual in the Union Bar but alas," it said. "Please send me tickets for Monday and Wednesday.

The Skat game (pictured below) is probably the first thing opera lovers who haven’t seen or heard it know about Intermezzo, one of Strauss’s rarer if by no means neglected operas. The second is that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Richard Strauss arguably invented an ancestor of reality TV when he put his domestic life on stage with ...

Deutsche Oper Berlin continues its Strauss trilogy with this wittily staged, gorgeously sung production of Intermezzo, which blows the cobwebs off Strauss’ opera with startling results The flip side ...

Anita Bader and Roland Wood both excel in "Intermezzo" by Strauss Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo has been described as music’s finest existing portrait of a marriage. That is surely true, yet it is ...

Marital misunderstanding: Anita Bader and Roland Wood as the Storches/Strausses Salome, Royal Opera (2010). Angela Denoke's mercurial Salome (pictured below by Clive Barda) shimmers in Strauss's ...

Intermezzo is a chamber music concert that includes popular opera arias and beautiful chamber pieces performed by Opera in the Heights singers and orchestra members who are volunteering their time and ...

Mary Dunleavy as Christine with Ailish Tynan as Anna and Alice Devine, Elka Lee-Green & Charlotte Sutherland as her staff, in Intermezzo (Garsington Opera) Garsington Opera stages a rare production of ...

Around 1917, I like to speculate, while writing the overblown conclusion to Die Frau ohne Schatten, Richard Strauss terminally ran out of creative steam, leaving everything he wrote over the remaining ...

Richard Strauss’ “Bourgeois comedy with musical interludes” has never been a staple of the repertoire in the same way as most of his other operas, but Bruno Ravella’s beautiful production for ...