Richard Strauss News

Symphony San Jose will present BEETHOVEN'S EROICA on Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 7:30pm and Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:30pm at The California Theatre.

Music Director Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in its debut performance at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the third of four orchestral concerts in New York City during the ensemble’s 63rd season.

City of London Sinfonia and the London Review of Books will present dazzling works of music and literature created in the twilight of great artistic lives. Learn more about the March performance and see how to attend.

The Australian Youth Orchestra has announced a collaboration with Ikuntji Artists, the first art centre established for women of the Western Desert Art Movement. Learn more here!

Seattle Opera has revealed the 2025/26 mainstage season. The company’s 62nd season offers three McCaw Hall premieres, including Fellow Travelers and more. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has unveiled its 2025­­­–26 season, the first under the leadership of new Music Director Cristian Măcelaru. This season introduces an ambitious programming vision that balances timeless orchestral works with contemporary voices.

San Francisco Opera has announced details for the Company's 2025–26 Season. The Company's 103rd season, which marks Shilvock's tenth as general director, kicks off September 5.

The San Diego Symphony has revealed the detailed programs of the 2025-26 Jacobs Music Center season. This will be the second season in the orchestra’s new indoor home. See full programming!

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través de la Compañía Nacional de Ópera, anuncian la programación de la temporada 2025.

New York Festival of Song will kick off its first concert of the new year with Le tour de France on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. 

Legendary Judy Collins will present a star-studded 85th birthday celebration Judy Collins and Friends: 85 Years of Music and Protest at The Town Hall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present an adventurous Valentine's Day program featuring three orchestra premieres, headlined by the return of R. Strauss' Don Juan. Led by SFSO's award-winning music director Sebrina María Alfonso and featuring soprano Amy Shoremount-Obra, the concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, February 14, at the Tennessee Williams Theatre at The College of the Florida Keys.

Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils, the drama film starring Amanda Seyfried as a theatre director, has received an official release date of March 7, 2025 in the United States.

Celebrate love in all its dramatic, poetic, erotic, scandalous and insatiable forms as South Florida Symphony Orchestra (SFSO) will present an adventurous Valentine’s Day weekend program featuring three orchestra premieres, headlined by the return of R. Strauss’ Don Juan.  

The Sun Valley Music Festival has revealed its landmark 41st season, from July 28 to August 21, at the Sun Valley Pavilion. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Grammy-winning conductor Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) embark on a winter/spring season that includes four world premieres, including works by Pulitzer Prize-winning Native American composer Raven Chacon.

The Australian Youth Orchestra has announced its Queensland performances, with just weeks remaining until its extraordinary 'Striking and Beautiful' concerts in Caloundra and Brisbane.

New York's Heartbeat Opera will present a new adaptation of Richard Strauss' iconic opera SALOME, transforming Oscar Wilde's tight, 100-minute thrill ride into a startlingly intimate Salome.

This year’s final subscription concert at the new Jacobs Music Center began with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan and ended with his equally familiar Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. In between, Inon Barnatan was featured in two 20th Century piano concertos by Dimitri Shostakovich. The usual please-silence-the-phones admonition before the concert was more emphatic than usual. The audience was informed that this last of three performances would be recorded for possible commercial release. As you’ll see, that didn’t stop one competitive phone from auditioning. The familiar Don Juan lives up to its name. It’s a tone poem for orchestra with a mix of romance, heroism and tragedy. San Diego Symphony Music Director and conductor Rafael Payare was at his enthusiastic acrobatic best. The music’s many moods were reflected in his motions and facial expressions and then realized in the orchestra for an exciting performance.

On Friday, February 28, 2025, New York-based German composer Reiko Füting releases his fifth portrait album, distantViolinSound, on New Focus Recordings.