Name: Capriccio
Start: 2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Singer

Bass

Alfred Reiter

La Roche

Stage director

Brigitte Fassbaender

Set designer

Johannes Leiacker

Lighting designer

Joachim Klein

Dramaturge

Mareike Wink

Conductor

Sebastian Weigle

Soprano

Maria Bengtsson

The Countess

Baritone

Domen Križaj

The Count

Tenor

Martin Mitterrutzner

Flamand

Liviu Holender

Olivier

Contralto

Zanda Švēde

Clairon

Peter Marsh

Monsieur Taupe

Brian Michael Moore

An Italian singer

Bianca Tognocchi

Costume designer

Other

Silent

Katharina Wiedenhofer

A young dancer

Jarrett Porter

The Major-Domo

Tianji Lin

Eight Servants

Leon Tchakachow

Kiduck Kwon

Lukas Eder

Jonathan Macker

Haesu Kim

Serhii Moskalchuk

Istvan Balotá

Theresa Kronthaler

Oper Frankfurt

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Gearmáinis

Capriccio

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Opernhaus

Capriccio Strauss,R

Public

Béarla

Approved

When he was 78 Richard Strauss wrote a discours à l’art pour l’art, called Capriccio, in which artists and aristocrats argue in light-footed Parlando style with wit and poignancy about the merits of music and words in opera. The composer Flamand and poet Olivier, vying for arts-smitten countess Madeleine, personificate the argument. His “Conversation Piece for Music”, with stylistic side glances at Mozart and Wagner - Strauss' orienteering stars - turns into a reflection on what or how opera was, is and could be. Brigitte Fassbaender‘s take on events that could have taken place in Paris in 1775, plays out in set and costumes by Johannes Leiacker inspired by the times when the work was composed: the 1940s – a time when the German national socialists’ cultural politics, even in France, was to entertain more than anything else - much like Strauss's last work for the stage, Capriccio.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble