Those Librettos Didn’t Write Themselves, Ya Know

“A court has ordered heirs of composer Richard Strauss to share royalties with the heirs of librettist and poet Hugo von Hoffmansthal for nine collaborations, including the popular operas Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra… Payments to the heirs of von Hoffmansthal, who died in 1929, stopped in 1999 after the expiration of a 70-year protection period.”