Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The stylish Art-Deco production, originally staged by renowned director John Cox, ...

Renee Fleming has taken her time bringing one of her most celebrated operatic roles, Countess Madeleine in Richard Strauss’ “Capriccio,” to the company for which she serves as creative consultant. But ...

Capriccio was Richard Strauss’ last opera. The final curtain. It holds, perhaps, some extra piquancy for that fact, but needs it not. Oh sure, it goes on a bit. Having made its points, it tends to ...

If the term “inner migration” can fairly describe the mind-set of musicians who chose to remain in Germany during World War II, then Richard Strauss took the ultimate trip. Consider Capriccio, his ...

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Richard Strauss's Capriccio is an opera within an opera on the unlikely and self-conscious subject of opera itself. In the course of what is essentially a 2½-hour conversation about aesthetics, a poet ...

Richard Strauss’ last opera, Capriccio, is a rather private piece. It is essentially an extended debate on an intellectual question: In opera, does music or text have the upper hand? There are no ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Richard Strauss' last opera, "Capriccio." The performance will begin at noon at the AMC Town Plaza 5 in Cape Girardeau.

Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the elegant Countess in Richard Strauss’s Capriccio, on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, August 14 at 12 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In retrospect, it is a shame the Royal Opera has not taken the opportunity of staging for Renée Fleming some of the ...

“I am the composer of Der Rosenkavalier,” pleaded Richard Strauss in mitigation when American troops rolled up menacingly outside his front door in 1945. The same remark could serve as the epigraph ...