The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio

04/23/2011

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2hrs 29min

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Music

STORY

Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s sophisticated “Conversation Piece for Music.” She is being courted by two men: Joseph Kaiser sings the composer, Flamand, and Russell Braun is Olivier, the poet. The stellar cast also includes Peter Rose as the theater director La Roche, Sarah Connolly as the actress Clairon, and Morten Frank Larsen as the Countess’s brother. John Cox’s elegant production places the action in the 1920s. Andrew Davis conducts.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Renée Fleming
  • Sarah Connolly
  • Joseph Kaiser
  • Morten Frank Larsen
  • Russell Braun

    Directors

  • Gary Halvorson
  • John Cox
  • Peter McClintock

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Decca
  • The Metropolitan Opera

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • German