RICHARD STRAUSS – INTERMEZZO

Richard Strauss summed up his two-act opera Intermezzo as a ‘bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes’. The soprano role of Christine with its shimmering cantilenas represents Strauss’s wife Pauline, while the successful Kapellmeister Robert Storch serves as Richard Strauss himself in a domestic drama that was avant-garde for its time but now resonates with the accessibility of today’s reality shows. This production from the Deutsche Oper Berlin was acclaimed for its lush orchestral sound and superbly characterful cast led by a formidable central performance from Maria Bengtsson

Maria Bengtsson, Nadine Secunde, Anna Schoeck, Sopranos
Clemens Bieber, Thomas Blondelle, Tenors
Markus Brück, Philipp Jekal, Baritones
Elliott Woodruff, Actor
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Sir Donald Runnicles