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).

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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 ...

Since my days as a pothead are long gone (LOL)--did anyone ever watch 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY without a little help from a friend?--I came to the Boston Symphony's (BSO) concert at Carnegie Hall the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Capriccio, Strauss uses the romantic indecision of the widowed Countess-who is ...

The Metropolitan Opera's production of Richard Strauss' final opera, "Capriccio," opened on March 28; the matinee performance of Saturday, April 23, will be telecast live in HD to Fairfield University ...

Richard Strauss knew a thing or two about theory and practice. His Capriccio is a meta-opera: an opera about opera. Sound academic? It is. The work takes some getting used to, but the current Lyric ...

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 ...

00:01, Sat, Jun 9, 2018 Updated: 14:09, Tue, Jun 19, 2018 Strauss and his librettist Clemens Krauss composed the work as affirmation of the enduring power of art. Tim Albery updates the opera to the ...

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 ...