Created in October 1919 in Vienna, this ambitious opera in three acts is the third fruit of a true collaboration between the composer Richard Strauss and the Austrian poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after The Knight of the Rose (1911) and Ariadne at Naxos (1912). Their meeting on the poster for Elektra (1909) only took place a posteriori, on a text already written by Hofmannsthal.
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