Librettists
With Donald Macleod.
5: Hugo von Hofmannsthal was an immensely cultured Viennese whose poetry and prose writings would ensure his reputation quite apart from his celebrated if sometimes difficult partnership with Strauss. Music includes excerpts from Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Salome,
Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Josephsiegende, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Arabella.