Richard Strauss, born on June 11, 1864, is one of opera’s greatest composers. And many of his operas, including “Elektra,” “Salome,” “Der Rosenkavalier,” “Die Frau ohne Schatten” and “Ariadne Auf Naxos” are major repertoire staples.

Others still get occasional performances, including “Arabella,” “Capriccio,” and “The Egyptian Helen.”

But there are still others that for whatever reason simply never made the cut and are quite rare to see at the opera house.

When looking at the work of most masters, their late output tends to be held up as the masterworks, but this happens in the reverse with Strauss. In total, he completed 15 operas and of those, his five most popular works were among the first seven he completed.

So what of the other operas?

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