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Carmen Highlights CD. The ultimate femme fatale returns to McCaw Hall in October, 2011! Habanera, Flower Song and Toreador Song are included.
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Ariadne Auf Naxos

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Richard Strauss was delighted with his librettist for Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier, the Viennese dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. That they were different in almost every way never fazed Strauss. He was a Munich bourgeois...
About the Composer

Richard Strauss was an easy-going fellow with a great sense of humor who liked playing cards. His music, the overripe fruit of Late Romanticism, is anything but easy-going. It can be eerie, noisy, and disgusting; erotic...