List of operas by Richard Strauss

This is a complete list of the operas by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949).

List

Opus	Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Composition	Première date	Place, Theatre
	Der Kampf mit dem Drachen		1 act	Theodor Körner	1876	—	unperformed
25	Guntram (revised 1940)		3 acts	by the composer	1892–1893	10 May 1894; revised version: 29 October 1940	Weimar, Grossherzogliches Hoftheater (both versions)
50	Feuersnot	Singgedicht	1 act	Ernst von Wolzogen	1900–1901	21 November 1901	Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus
54	Salome	Musikdrama	1 act	by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde	1903–1905	9 December 1905	Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus
58	Elektra	Tragödie	1 act	Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles's Electra	1906–1908	25 January 1909	Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus
59	Der Rosenkavalier	Komödie für Musik	3 acts	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	1909–1910	26 January 1911	Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus
60	Ariadne auf Naxos; to be played after Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière	Oper	1 act	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	1911–1912	25 October 1912	Stuttgart, Kleines Haus des Hoftheaters
60 (II)	Ariadne auf Naxos, second version		prologue & 1 act	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	1915–1916	4 October 1916	Vienna, Kaiserliches und Königliches Hof-Operntheater
65	Die Frau ohne Schatten	Oper	3 acts	Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Goethe	1914–1917	10 October 1919	Vienna, Vienna State Opera
72	Intermezzo	bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen	2 acts	by the composer	1918–1923	4 November 1924	Dresden, Semperoper
75	Die ägyptische Helena	Oper	2 acts	Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Euripides's Helen	1923–1927	6 June 1928	Dresden, Semperoper new version: 14 August 1933, Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus
79	Arabella	lyrische Komödie	3 acts	Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after his story Lucidor, Figuren zu einer ungeschriebenen Komödie (1910) and the comic sketch Der Fiaker als Graf (1925)	1929–1932	1 July 1933	Dresden, Semperoper
80	Die schweigsame Frau	komische Oper	3 acts	Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson's Epicœne, or The silent woman	1933–1934	24 June 1935	Dresden, Semperoper
81	Friedenstag	Oper	1 act	Joseph Gregor	1935–1936	24 July 1938	Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater
82	Daphne	bukolische Tragödie	1 act	Joseph Gregor	1936–1937	15 October 1938	Dresden, Semperoper
83	Die Liebe der Danae	heitere Mythologie	3 acts	Joseph Gregor	1938–1940	14 August 1952	Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus
85	Capriccio	Konversationsstück für Musik	1 act	Clemens Krauss and the composer, after Giovanni Battista Casti	1940–1941	28 October 1942	Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater
	Des Esels Schatten (orchestrated and completed by Karl Haussner)	Komödie	6 scenes	Hans Adler, after Wieland's novel Die Geschichte der Abderiten	1947–1949	7 June 1964	Ettal

See also

• List of compositions by Richard Strauss
• Tone poems (Strauss)

References

Sources

• Some of the information in this article is taken from the related Dutch Wikipedia article.
• Murray, David (1992), 'Strauss, Richard' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7