Capriccio - Wiener Staatsoper

The read

It runs long at 2h 43m.

Synopsis

Richard Strauss' 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 the words or the music? That is the question Strauss and his librettist Clemens Krauss address through the story of a Countess torn between a composer and a poet.

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Key crew

• Clemens KraussWriter
• Marco Arturo MarelliDirector
• Brian LargeDirector

Cast

• Renée FlemingDie Gräfin
• Bo SkovhusDer Graff
• Michael SchadeFlamand
• Markus EicheOlivier
• Kurt RydlLa Roche
• Angelika KirchschlagerClairon
• Iride MartinezEine italienische Sängerin

Themes