List of operas by Richard Strauss

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

Opus	Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Composition	Première date	Place, Theatre
00	KampfDer Kampf mit dem Drachen		1 act	KörnerTheodor Körner	1876	0—	0unperformed
25	Guntram (revised 1940)		3 acts	Straussby the composer	1892–1893	1894-05-1010 May 1894; revised version: 29 October 1940	Weimar, Grossherzogliches Hoftheater
50	Feuersnot	Singgedicht	1 act	WolzogenErnst von Wolzogen	1900–1901	1901-11-2121 November 1901	Dresden, Hoftheater
54	Salome	Musikdrama	1 act	WildeOscar Wilde; German translation by Hedwig Lachmann	1903–1905	1905-12-099 December 1905	Dresden, Hoftheater
58	Elektra	Tragödie	1 act	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal	1906–1908	1909-01-2525 January 1909	Dresden, Hoftheater
59	RosenkavalierDer Rosenkavalier	Komödie für Musik	3 acts	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal	1909–1910	1911-01-2626 January 1911	Dresden, Königliches Opernhaus
60	Ariadne1Ariadne auf Naxos; to be played after Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière	Oper	1 act	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal	1911–1912	1912-10-2525 October 1912	Stuttgart, Kleines Haus des Hoftheaters
60 (II)	Ariadne2Ariadne auf Naxos, second version		1.5prologue & 1 act	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal	1915–1916	1916-10-044 October 1916	Vienna, Kaiserliches und Königliches Hof-Operntheater
65	FrauDie Frau ohne Schatten	Oper	3 acts	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal	1914–1917	1919-10-1010 October 1919	Vienna, Vienna State Opera
72	Intermezzo	bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen	2 acts	Straussby the composer	1918–1923	1924-11-044 November 1924	Dresden, Semperoper
75	aegyptischeDie ägyptische Helena	Oper	2 acts	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal, after Homer, Euripides and Goethe	1923–1927	1928-06-066 June 1928	Dresden, Semperoper new version: 14 August 1933, Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus
79	Arabella	lyrische Komödie	3 acts	HofmannsthalHugo von Hofmannsthal, after his story Lucidor, Figuren zu einer ungeschriebenen Komödie (1910) and the comic sketch Der Fiaker als Graf (1925)	1929–1932	1933-07-011 July 1933	Dresden, Semperoper
80	schweigsameDie schweigsame Frau	komische Oper	3 acts	ZweigStefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson's Epicœne, or The silent woman	1933–1934	1935-06-2424 June 1935	Dresden, Semperoper
81	Friedenstag	Oper	1 act	GregorJoseph Gregor	1935–1936	1938-07-2424 July 1938	Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater
82	Daphne	bukolische Tragödie	1 act	GregorJoseph Gregor	1936–1937	1938-10-1515 October 1938	Dresden, Semperoper
83	LiebeDie Liebe der Danae	heitere Mythologie	3 acts	GregorJoseph Gregor	1938–1940	1952-08-1414 August 1952	Salzburg, Kleines Festspielhaus
85	Capriccio	Konversationsstück für Musik	1 act	KraussClemens Krauss and the composer	1940–1941	1942-10-2828 October 1942	Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater
999	EselsDes Esels Schatten (orchestrated and completed by Karl Haussner)	Komödie	6 scenes	AdlerHans Adler, after Wieland's novel Die Abderiten	1947–1948	1964-06-077 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