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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Richard Strauss dubbed his final opera, Capriccio, a “conversation piece”. Completed in 1941, it is a complex act of ...

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 ...

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“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 ...