Richard Strauss
21) Piano concerto
Author
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (52 min., 27 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
30) Salome
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An operatic setting of the biblical story of the princess Salome and the events that led to the death of John the Baptist.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs, immediately before and during the Second World War. The librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthals' conceit, that a hapless young composer has to accept the simultaneous performance of his new tragic opera with a burlesque from a commedia dell'arte troupe, is turned into a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids, airmen and of painful delusions and soul-searching,...
Series
In classical mood volume 15
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (25 pages : 17 x 17 cm).
Language
English