Special offer. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Maria Bengtsson (Christine), Philipp Jekal (Robert Storch), Thomas Blondelle (Baron Lummer), Clemens Bieber (Stroh), Markus Brück (Notary), Nadine Secunde (His Wife)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles,Tobias Kratzer
In short, unless you'd be too irritated by the updating and plot alterations, the result is sheer joy from start to finish, a top-notch realisation of one of the composer's lesser-known masterpieces.
Special offer. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Maria Bengtsson (Christine), Philipp Jekal (Robert Storch), Thomas Blondelle (Baron Lummer), Clemens Bieber (Stroh), Markus Brück (Notary), Nadine Secunde (His Wife)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles,Tobias Kratzer
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In short, unless you'd be too irritated by the updating and plot alterations, the result is sheer joy from start to finish, a top-notch realisation of one of the composer's lesser-known masterpieces.
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Richard Strauss described his two-act opera Intermezzo as a 'bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes'. The soprano role of Christine with her shimmering cantilenas represents Strauss's wife Pauline, while the successful Court Conductor Robert Storch is Richard Strauss's alter ego in a reality drama that was avant-garde for its time. This acclaimed production from director Tobias Kratzer brings Intermezzo into the present day, highlighting Strauss's own clever switches between reality and fiction with stunning visual effects and a superbly characterful cast.
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- Maria Bengtsson (soprano), Philipp Jekal, Thomas Blondelle, Clemens Bieber, Markus Brück (baritone), Nadine Secunde (soprano), Deutsche Oper Berlin (opera company)
- Donald Runnicles
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February 2026
In short, unless you'd be too irritated by the updating and plot alterations, the result is sheer joy from start to finish, a top-notch realisation of one of the composer's lesser-known masterpieces.
January 2026
Donald Runnicles was born to conduct Strauss, and all too readily proves it during the symphonic interludes that, despite their thematic connections with the rest of the opera, seem to come from a different piece.
