Sir Simon Rattle takes the podium to conduct Richard Strauss’s glittering score. Star soprano Camilla Nylund is the worldly Marschallin, with the outstanding mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená as her ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Richard Strauss' romantic masterpiece "Der Rosenkavalier." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in ...

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Bass-baritone Steven Marking has sung both opera and American songs for years, but he has never had a role in Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier." Until now, and that would be here in central ...

Most beloved of all the dirty-old-man-gets-his-comeuppance comic operas, Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" returned to the L.A. Opera repertory to close out the company's 19th season. Set aside ...

For a new production that was supposed to mark a farewell for soprano Renee Fleming to a role (the Marschallin) if not to staged opera performance in general, Robert Carsen's version of Richard ...

On Broadway, when a revival loses two out of three of its stars, the production might very well be put off until another season or, at worst, the producers might pack it in. In the opera world, ...

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