List of operas by Richard Strauss
This is a complete list of the operas by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949).
List
| Opus | Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Composition | Première date | Place, Theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Der Kampf mit dem Drachen | 1 act | Theodor Körner | 1876 | — | unperformed | ||
| 25 | Guntram (revised 1940) | 3 acts | by the composer | 1892–1893 | 10 May 1894; revised version: 29 October 1940 | Weimar, Grossherzogliches Hoftheater (both versions) | |
| 50 | Feuersnot | Singgedicht | 1 act | Ernst von Wolzogen | 1900–1901 | 21 November 1901 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus |
| 54 | Salome | Musikdrama | 1 act | by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde | 1903–1905 | 9 December 1905 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus |
| 58 | Elektra | Tragödie | 1 act | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1906–1908 | 25 January 1909 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus |
| 59 | Der Rosenkavalier | Komödie für Musik | 3 acts | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1909–1910 | 26 January 1911 | Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus |
| 60 | Ariadne auf Naxos; to be played after Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière | Oper | 1 act | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1911–1912 | 25 October 1912 | Stuttgart, Kleines Haus des Hoftheaters |
| 60 (II) | Ariadne auf Naxos, second version | prologue & 1 act | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1915–1916 | 4 October 1916 | Vienna, Kaiserliches und Königliches Hof-Operntheater | |
| 65 | Die Frau ohne Schatten | Oper | 3 acts | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1914–1917 | 10 October 1919 | Vienna, Vienna State Opera |
| 72 | Intermezzo | bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen | 2 acts | by the composer | 1918–1923 | 4 November 1924 | Dresden, Semperoper |
| 75 | Die ägyptische Helena | Oper | 2 acts | Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Homer, Euripides and Goethe | 1923–1927 | 6 June 1928 | Dresden, Semperoper new version: 14 August 1933, Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus |
| 79 | Arabella | lyrische Komödie | 3 acts | Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after his story Lucidor, Figuren zu einer ungeschriebenen Komödie (1910) and the comic sketch Der Fiaker als Graf (1925) | 1929–1932 | 1 July 1933 | Dresden, Semperoper |
| 80 | Die schweigsame Frau | komische Oper | 3 acts | Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson's Epicœne, or The silent woman | 1933–1934 | 24 June 1935 | Dresden, Semperoper |
| 81 | Friedenstag | Oper | 1 act | Joseph Gregor | 1935–1936 | 24 July 1938 | Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater |
| 82 | Daphne | bukolische Tragödie | 1 act | Joseph Gregor | 1936–1937 | 15 October 1938 | Dresden, Semperoper |
| 83 | Die Liebe der Danae | heitere Mythologie | 3 acts | Joseph Gregor | 1938–1940 | 14 August 1952 | Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus |
| 85 | Capriccio | Konversationsstück für Musik | 1 act | Clemens Krauss and the composer after Giovanni Battista Casti | 1940–1941 | 28 October 1942 | Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater |
| Des Esels Schatten (orchestrated and completed by Karl Haussner) | Komödie | 6 scenes | Hans Adler, after Wieland's novel Die Geschichte der Abderiten | 1947–1949 | 7 June 1964 | Ettal |
See also
References
- Sources
- Some of the information in this article is taken from the related Dutch Wikipedia article.
- Murray, David (1992), 'Strauss, Richard' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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