The Richard Strauss Edition makes all 18 stage works available together as a complete set of 18 study scores. Each volume includes information on the orchestration and the original cast, together with a facsimile page of the autograph full score of each work.

8 works are available for sale in study score format for the first time in this edition:

- The early works "Guntram" and "Feuersnot"
- The ballets "Josephs Legende" and "Schlagobers"
- The complete stage music "Der Bürger als Edelmann" (originally written as part of the first version of "Ariadne auf Naxos")
- The rarely performed operas "Die ägyptische Helena", "Friedenstag" and "Die Liebe der Danae".