Title: Richard Strauss: "Capriccio"
Original title: Richard Strauss: Capriccio
Release year: 2013
Genre: opera
Director: Marco Arturo Marelli
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
Cast: Renée Fleming (Countess), Bo Skovhus (Count), Michael Schade (Flamand), Markus Eiche (Olivier), Angelika Kirchschlager (Clairon), Kurt Rydl (La Roche); Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Description:
Richard Strauss's last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way. Which came first - words or music? That is the question that Strauss and his librettist Clemens Krauss address through the story of a Countess torn between a composer and a poet. "Renée Fleming is a world-class Countess, moving and intense ... La Roche, the wonderful Angelika Kirchschlager as Clairon - all strike precisely the right note, as you do in the smaller roles, turning this Capriccio into an event of the first importance. "(Der Kurier, Vienna)
Recorded live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 2013.
Issued: United States | C MAJOR
Duration: 2:42:33