'Der Rosenkavalier' is Richard Strauss's most popular opera, and perhaps one of the greatest comic operas since Mozart's. The work premiered just three years before the start of World War I.... Read all'Der Rosenkavalier' is Richard Strauss's most popular opera, and perhaps one of the greatest comic operas since Mozart's. The work premiered just three years before the start of World War I. It traces the artistic heritage of the Austrian-Hungarian empire from the days of Mozart,... Read all'Der Rosenkavalier' is Richard Strauss's most popular opera, and perhaps one of the greatest comic operas since Mozart's. The work premiered just three years before the start of World War I. It traces the artistic heritage of the Austrian-Hungarian empire from the days of Mozart, in which the story is set, to the morbid distraction of the Viennese Art Nouveau. Musical... Read all