New. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson, Thomas Blondelle, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles
It's difficult to account for the comedy's neglect. Done as well as it is here, with the entire cast entering into the spirit of the material, it simply lifts into the air.
New. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson, Thomas Blondelle, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles
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It's difficult to account for the comedy's neglect. Done as well as it is here, with the entire cast entering into the spirit of the material, it simply lifts into the air.
About
Richard Strauss summed up his two-act opera Intermezzo as a ‘bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes’. The soprano role of Christine with its shimmering cantilenas represents Strauss’s wife Pauline, while the successful Kapellmeister Robert Storch serves as Richard Strauss himself in a domestic drama that was avant-garde for its time but now resonates with the accessibility of today’s reality shows. This production from the Deutsche Oper Berlin was acclaimed for its lush orchestral sound and superbly characterful cast led by a formidable central performance from Maria Bengtsson.
Contents and tracklist
- Maria Bengtsson, Philipp Jekal, Anna Schoeck, Tobias Kehrer, Elliott Woodruff (actor), Thomas Blondelle, Nadine Secunde, Lilit Davtyan, Joel Allison, Clemens Bieber, Simon Pauly, Markus Brück
- Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Donald Runnicles
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Awards and reviews
July 2026
It's difficult to account for the comedy's neglect. Done as well as it is here, with the entire cast entering into the spirit of the material, it simply lifts into the air.
