Lyric Opera of Chicago is auditioning highly trained dancers with classical ballet experience, including pointe work, with strong acting experience for its upcoming production of the opera Capriccio ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The stylish Art-Deco production, originally staged by renowned director John Cox, ...

Richard Strauss’ last opera, Capriccio, is a rather private piece. It is essentially an extended debate on an intellectual question: In opera, does music or text have the upper hand? There are no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...