"Which German composer wrote 16 operas including ""Salome"", ""Electra"" and ""Der Rosenkavalier""?"
Der Rosenkavalier in Der Rosenkavalier" is one of Grainger's more complex piano transcriptions, with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns. Notes Sources Other sources General reference Der Rosenkavalier ' (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer""'), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel "Les amours du chevalier de Faublas" by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière's comedy "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac". It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max
Der Rosenkavalier the younger woman. Though a comic opera, the work incorporates some weighty themes (particularly through the Marschallin's character arc), including infidelity, aging, sexual predation, and selflessness (or the lack of it) in love. There are many recordings of the opera and it is regularly performed. "Der Rosenkavalier" premiered in 1911 in Dresden under the baton of Ernst von Schuch, who had previously conducted the premieres of Strauss's "Feuersnot", "Salome" and "Elektra"; Georg Toller was originally slated to produce the opera, but he backed out and was replaced by Max Reinhardt. Soprano Margarethe Siems (Strauss's first Chrysothemis) sang the Marschallin, in