Name: Capriccio
Start: 2019-05-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-06-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Real

Organization

Soprano

Malin Byström

La Comtesse Madeleine

Baryton

Josef Wagner

Le Comte

Ténor

Norman Reinhardt

Flamand

Andrè Schuen

Olivier

Basse

Christof Fischesser

La Roche

Contralto

Theresa Kronthaler

La Clairon

John Graham-Hall

Monsieur Taupe

Leonor Bonilla

Une Cantatrice italienne

Juan José de León

Un Ténor italien

Torben Jürgens

Le Majordome

Chanteur

Pablo Garcia Lopez

Criado

Sebastià Peris

Gerardo López

David Oller

Emmanuel Faraldo

Manuel Gómez Ruiz

David Sánchez

Direction d'orchestre

Asher Fisch

Mise en scène

Christof Loy

Décors

Raimund Orfeo Voigt

Costumes

Klaus Bruns

Lumières

Franck Evin

Chorégraphie

Andreas Heise

Teatro Real de Madrid

Capriccio

Madrid

Espagne

Teatro Real

The historic debate regarding the relative importance that words should have in opera with respect to the music constituted a source of fascination for Richard Strauss throughout his life. In Capriccio, he delves deeper in this topic, using an exceptional libretto, fruit of a suggestion from his dear Stefan Zweig, who found a brief comedy in the British Library which served as inspiration for that which would be the last opera of the German composer; a comedy, which incidentally had already served as inspiration for Antonio Salieri. From this point a plot arose, full of irony, featuring a Countess –symbol of art- whose affection were found to be divided between two suitors, a poet and a composer. Who should she chose? Decidedly Strauss placed special importance on the inteligibility of the text that was sung, while not scrimping on the musical resources, unfolding a palette of incomparable harmonies and textures. Capriccio is without a doubt an overwhelming synthesis of all that the musician had been able to improve over his career, something of which he himself was conscious: proud of his work, he rejected the suggestion from his librettist to initiate a new project. Quite simply he could not see how he could do any better.

Capriccio Strauss,R

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