Richard Strauss – The Architect of Operatic Shock and Grace

17/09/2025 21 min Temporada 1
Richard Strauss – The Architect of Operatic Shock and Grace

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Richard Strauss – The Architect of Operatic Shock and GraceStrauss bent the late-Romantic orchestra into modern theater: tone poems that swagger and wink (Don Juan, Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel) and operas that blaze and melt (Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier). From Elektra’s cataclysm to Rosenkavalier’s waltz-lit tenderness and the valedictory hush of the Four Last Songs, he turned orchestration into psychology.Produced by Selenius Media — Music by The Artificial Laboratory.