List of operas by Richard Strauss

The German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was prolific and long-lived, writing 16 operas from 1892 up until his death in 1949. Strauss "emerged soon after the deaths of Wagner and Brahms as the most important living German composer", and was crucial in inaugurating the musical style of Modernism. His operas were dominant representatives of the genre in his time, particularly his earlier ones: Salome (1905), Elektra (1909), Der Rosenkavalier (1911) and Ariadne auf Naxos (1912). His earliest work, Der Kampf mit dem Drachen ( 1876), was a juvenile sketch, and is not counted as part of his operatic oeuvre; his final opera, ( 1947–1949), was unfinished at his death and completed by Karl Haussner in 1964.

List of operas + Operas by Richard StraussInformation is from , unless otherwise noted. Period Title Genre Act(s) Librettist Premiere Op. TrV Date Venue 1876 ? 1 act Körner Unperformed – 44 1892–93 Guntram(revised 1940) Opera 3 acts Strauss 10 May 1894;revised version: 29 October 1940 Weimar, Grossherzogliches Hoftheater (both versions) 25 168 1900–01 Feuersnot(Fire Famine) Singgedicht(sung poem) 1 act Wolzogen Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus 50 203 1903–05 Salome Musikdrama 1 act Strauss, based on Lachmann's German translation of Wilde 9 December 1905 Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus 54 215 1906–08 Elektra Tragödie 1 act Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles's Electra 25 January 1909 Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus 58 223 1909–10 Der Rosenkavalier Komödie für Musik 3 acts Hofmannsthal 26 January 1911 Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus 59 227 1911–12 Ariadne auf Naxos Oper 1 act Hofmannsthal 25 October 1912 Stuttgart, Kleines Haus des Hoftheaters 60 228 1915–16 Ariadne auf Naxos,second version prologue & Oper 1 act Hofmannsthal 4 October 1916 Vienna, Kaiserliches und Königliches Hof-Operntheater 60 (II) 228a 1914–17 Die Frau ohne Schatten Oper 3 acts Hofmannsthal, after Goethe 10 October 1919 Vienna, Vienna State Opera 65 234 1918–23 Intermezzo bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen 2 acts Strauss 4 November 1924 Dresden, Semperoper 72 246 1923–27 Die ägyptische Helena Oper 2 acts Hofmannsthal, after Euripides's Helen 6 June 1928 Dresden, Semperoper 75 255 14 August 1933(new version) Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus 1929–32 Arabella lyrische Komödie(lyric comedy) 3 acts Hofmannsthal, after his works 1 July 1933 Dresden, Semperoper 79 263 1933–34 Die schweigsame Frau komische Oper 3 acts Zweig, after Jonson's Epicœne, or The silent woman 24 June 1935 Dresden, Semperoper 80 265 1935–36 Friedenstag Oper 1 act Gregor 24 July 1938 Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater 81 271 1936–37 Daphne bukolische Tragödie 1 act Gregor 15 October 1938 Dresden, Semperoper 82 272 1938–40 Die Liebe der Danae heitere Mythologie 3 acts Gregor 14 August 1952 Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus 83 278 1940–41 Capriccio Konversationsstück für Musik 1 act Strauss and Krauss, after Casti 28 October 1942 Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater 85 279 1947–49 (completed by Haussner) Komödie 6 scenes Adler, after Wieland 7 June 1964 Ettal, Ettal Abbey – 294

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