REFERENCE: My favourite Richard Strauss’ Operas

Strauss is definitely one of the best composers since ever. Salome is a masterpiece and other of my favourite Operas.An especial edition is the one performed by Birgit Nilsson.

Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. It was first performed at the Hofoper in Dresden on December 9, 1905.
The opera is famous (at the time of its release, infamous) for its Dance of the Seven Veils. Salome is part of the standard operatic repertoire.

Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted from his drama of 1903—the first of many such collaborations between composer and librettist. It was first performed in Dresden, Germany in 1909, and remains a part of the standard operatic repertoire.

Musically, Elektra deploys dissonance, chromaticism and extremely fluid tonality in a way which recalls but moves beyond the same composer's Salome of 1905, and which represents Strauss's furthest advances in modernism, from which he later retreated.