What is an intermezzo? There are several famous musical intermezzi such as those found in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci but there is also an entire opera entitled Intermezzo by Richard Strauss.

One May morning in 1902, Pauline Strauss opened a telegram addressed to her husband. "I waited for you as usual in the Union Bar but alas," it said. "Please send me tickets for Monday and Wednesday.

Starting with Intermezzo, Strauss’s autobiographical comedy-with-feeling, neglected for years after its Dresden premiere in 1924 and still not favoured with a London production, has a novelty value ...

Anita Bader and Roland Wood both excel in "Intermezzo" by Strauss Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo has been described as music’s finest existing portrait of a marriage. That is surely true, yet it is ...

The following Opera on 3 download about Richard Strauss opera ‘Intermezzo’ includes contributions by the soprano Dame Felicity Lott, the opera expert Gavin Plumley, as well as the opera historian ...

Marital misunderstanding: Anita Bader and Roland Wood as the Storches/Strausses Salome, Royal Opera (2010). Angela Denoke's mercurial Salome (pictured below by Clive Barda) shimmers in Strauss's ...

Richard Strauss' Intermezzo is an autobiographical piece - a domestic comedy of marital strife, told in fourteen scenes. John Cox's stylish production is set in the 1920s and stars Felicity Lott as ...

Though familiar to continental audiences from 1924 onwards, Strauss's bittersweet portrait of a period of strain in his own marriage had to wait until the 1974 Glyndebourne festival for its UK ...

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