We regret that Regula Mühlemann and Bo Skovhus had to cancel their participation in today‘s concert performance of CAPRICCIO due to illness. We would like to thank Tuuli Takala, who will take on the role of the ‘Italian Singer’ and Christoph Pohl, who will take on the role of the ‘Count‘.
Based on an idea by Stefan Zweig, Richard Strauss’s Capriccio, his final work for the stage, circles around a problem that is as old as the genre of opera itself: the relationship between words and music. Set in Paris around 1775, the plot combines an aesthetic debate with the rivalry between the poet Olivier and the musician Flamand, who are both wooing Countess Madeleine. Strauss regarded this highly unusual work as his ‘testament’. When Clemens Krauss, co-author of the libretto, mooted the possibility of them continuing their collaboration, Strauss pointed to the famous monologue of the Countess that is preceded by the hauntingly beautiful ‘Moonlight Music’: ‘Isn’t this D flat major the best conclusion to my theatrical life-work?’
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