Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a February 1937 German libretto by Joseph Gregor, based on an outline written in 1920, "Danae, or The Marriage of Convenience", by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss worked on the score in 1937, 1938 and into 1939, although he was pre-occupied with completing Daphne, developing ideas with Gregor and finally replacing him as librettist for Capriccio, and then succumbed to illness, which caused postponement for several months into 1940. The opera was finally finished on 28 June 1940.

Original Name Die Liebe der Danae
Librettist Joseph Gregor
Date of composition 1940 (1938-1940)
Premiered 1944, August 16th in Salzburg, Austria
First published 1944
Type Opera
Catalogue TrV 278
Approx. duration 180 minutes
Spoken language German
Instruments Voice (Baritone) - Jupiter
Voice (Soprano) - Danae, his daughter
Voice (Soprano) - Xanthe, her servant
Voice (Soprano) - Queen Semele
Voice (Soprano) - Queen Europa
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Queen Alkmene
Voice (Contralto) - Queen Leda
Chorus/Choir
Orchestra
2x Voice (Bass) - King, nephew to Pollux
2x Voice (Tenor) - King, nephew to Pollux
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Autotranslations beta Richard Strauss: The Love of Danae, TrV 278
Richard Strauss: The Love of Danae, TrV 278
Richard Strauss: The Love of Danae, TrV 278