Richard
Strauss

Operatic Works


If further information on a particular work is available there will be a link from the work name itself.

 

1887-93

25

Guntram
Opera in three acts

1900-01

50

Feuersnot
Opera in one act (Wolzogen)

1904-05

54

Salome
Opera in one act (Wilde/Lachmann)

1906-08

58

Elektra
Opera in one act (Hofmannsthal)

1909-10

59

Der Rosenkavalier
Opera in three acts (Hofmannsthal)

1911-12

60

Ariadne auf Naxos
Opera in one act, to follow two act adaptation of Molière’s ‘Le Bourgeois gentilhomme’ including incidental music by Strauss (Hofmannsthal)

1916

60

Ariadne auf Naxos
Revised version of opera in one act with new prologue (Hofmannsthal)

1914-17

65

Die Frau ohne Schatten
Opera in three acts (Hofmannsthal)

1919-23

72

Intermezzo
Opera in two acts

1924-27

75

Die Ägyptische Helena
Opera in two acts (Hofmannsthal)

1930-32

79

Arabella
Opera in three acts (Hofmannsthal)

1932-35

80

Die schweigsame Frau
Opera in three acts (Jonson-Zweig)

1935-36

81

Friedenstag
Opera in one act (Gregor)

1936-37

82

Daphne
Opera in one act (Gregor)

1938-40

83

Die Liebe der Danae
Opera in three acts (Gregor)

1940-41

85

Capriccio
Opera (Krauss/Strauss)

1917

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Der Bürger als Edelmann
Three act adaptation of Molière’s ‘Le Bourgeois gentilhomme’, with expanded version of 1912 incidental music (Hofmannsthal)

1949

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Des Esels Schatten
Comedy in six scenes (Adler)