| DERROSENKAVALIER | Opera by Richard Strauss set in Vienna |
| THIRDMAN | 1949 British film set in Vienna, starring Orson Welles (5,3) |
| AMADEUS | Best Picture set in Vienna |
| INTERMEZZO | Two-act opera by Richard Strauss first performed in Dresden in 1924 (10) |
| ARABELLA | Opera by Richard Strauss, first performed in Dresden, 1933 (8) |
| AUFNAXOS | Opera by Richard Strauss with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (7,3,5) |
| ARIADNE | Opera by Richard Strauss with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (7,3,5) |
| ELECTRA | One-act opera by Richard Strauss after a drama by Sophocles (7) |
| SALOME | One-act opera by Richard Strauss (6) |
| ELEKTRA | 1909 opera by Richard Strauss |
| CAPRICCIO | The final opera by Richard Strauss |
| OPERA | Drama set to music such as Faust or Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod or Daphne by Richard Strauss (5) |
| TONEPOEM | ...work by Richard Strauss perhaps, one in odd tempo (4,4) |
| ALSOSPRACH | see 1ac, 1896 tone poem by Richard Strauss inspired by a Friedrich Nietzsche novel (4,6,11) |
| IMSONNENSCHEIN | The fourth of Vier Gesange by Richard Strauss, opus 87, a setting of a poem by Ruckert (2,12) |
| ZARATHUSTRA | see 1ac, 1896 tone poem by Richard Strauss inspired by a Friedrich Nietzsche novel (4,6,11) |
| TILLEULENSPIEGEL | Folklore trickster; work by Richard Strauss |
| ALSO | '- sprach Zarathustra', tone poem by Richard Strauss (4) |
| AHEROSLIFE | 1898 symphonic poem by Richard Strauss (1,5,4) |
| RING | The ___ Cycle: four-part, 15-hour musical drama by Richard Strauss (4) |