Richard Strauss Documentary on His Relationship to Women | Featuring Renée Fleming, Gwyneth Jones

"Richard Strauss and his Heroines" is the first filmed documentation about the correlation between Richard Strauss's female creations for the stage and the women in his life.
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Original title - Richard Strauss and his heroines
A film by Thomas von Steinaecker, 2014.
The primary focus lies in his attachment to Pauline, his wife of more than 55 years. Strauss experienced the most varied of epochs in German history. How did the image of women change in this time and what influence did it have on Strauss’s work? And above all: how did Strauss achieve to express the finest feminine feelings in his music? Exploring these questions we meet Strauss’s last surviving grandchild who has first-hand experience with the married life of his grandparents.
Interviews with the great Strauss singers Brigitte Fassbaender, Renée Fleming, Dame Gwyneth Jones, and Christa Ludwig who report on their famous Strauss roles, Rufus Wainwright, conductor Franz Welser-Möst and other Strauss experts lead us through the film.
The film ends with Renée Fleming singing an excerpt from his final song, Im abendrot.
Watch the full concert here: • Renée Fleming: Richard...

[@MrMichaelvier]

Richard Strauss is the greatest composer of the 20th.Century. His music is breathtaking heavenly beautiful.
Great documentary. Thx for posting.

[@MehdiD.Ardebili]

Totally agree! Even the late Glenn Gould admitted to enjoying Strauss's music as much as he loves Bach and Beethoven while also considering Strauss as being the greatest musical figure of the 20th century.

[@pega17pl]

Great documentation, worth seeing for every music lover. - Heinz

[@annacyran716]

Great great documentation of the maestro R.Strauss ! Merci ! 🙏❤️🎼❤️🌹

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

The most sublime orchestrator of the twentieth century. Oftentimes it is rather hard to believe what one is hearing. Berg comes in at a distant second. Thank you for the superb documentary. One of the best things I've seen this year. Noel

[@Fan652w]

This was interesting, but the documentary is inadequate in that omits to even mention two of Strauss's best operas, Ariadne auf Naxos and Arabella. It also only hints that some of Strauss's writing for sopranos is extremely high pitched and very challenging. Ariadne contains a colaratura aria for Zerbinetta which lasts over ten minutes! Arabella, as well as having a lovable heroine, has the very demanding (though small) role of Fiakermilli. A soprano such as Gruberova or Dessay or Fally (who have played these roles) should have been interviewed.

[@adrianball5670]

Good thing his greatest opera Die Liebe der Danae gets mentioned.

[@samitobribiesca6320]

RICHARD STRAUß , GRAND MAESTRO , RENÉÉ FLEMING PRIMA DAMA ASSOLUTTA , MERVEILLEUSEMENT PRODUCTION ,MERCI !

[@stellamarisbenitodevera643]

Mil Gracias por este vídeo muy interesante ,sin desperdicio 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏💞

[@meisterwue]

Sehr interessante Doku ......sehr interessante....mit den Tenören hatte er es ja nicht so....13:29 und zum Finale die Apotheose des Soprans : 4 letzte Lieder

[@afjkarey5366]

i always wondered why he was so obsessed with woman voices in his works. he even wrote male roles for female singers.

[@meisterwue]

14:25 genialer Kitsch , aber nur weil Mottl den Orchestersatz verdirbt.....die Kl.Fassung ist die originale

[@rdubugnon]

HOW CAN THEY SAY that Die Frau Ohne Schatten's music has become REGRESSIVE in Strausses output ? (34:28). Just because it depicts a "traditional or conservative" Hausfrau ? This is nonsense. The score of this opera is almost as challenging as Elektra, but on a three-act duration ! and it reconnects Strauss with his groundbreaking orchestration discoveries, far beyond Die Rosenkavalier's, which was also seen as "retrograde". I really don't understand those value jugements from "modernists" who consider dissonance as "progress". There is not such thing as progress in Art.

[@RattusYu]

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