The German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra play Rachmaninov's 2nd symphony and Strauss.

What is an intermezzo? There are several famous musical intermezzi such as those found in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci but there is also an entire opera entitled Intermezzo by Richard Strauss.

Vienna, the Gay—Vienna, rival of Paris, was last week preparing joyfully to revive its famed Redouten Bal, its opera ball, after four years of “interruption.” Its committee was resolved it should miss ...

Richard Strauss' Intermezzo is an autobiographical piece - a domestic comedy of marital strife, told in fourteen scenes. John Cox's stylish production is set in the 1920s and stars Felicity Lott as ...

Starting with Intermezzo, Strauss’s autobiographical comedy-with-feeling, neglected for years after its Dresden premiere in 1924 and still not favoured with a London production, has a novelty value ...

The Skat game (pictured below) is probably the first thing opera lovers who haven’t seen or heard it know about Intermezzo, one of Strauss’s rarer if by no means neglected operas. The second is that ...

“Intermezzo” is Richard Strauss’s tart but lovingly comic representation of his life with his wife, Pauline, a restive diva with an easily bruised ego. Mary Dunleavy, singing with a silvery, pealing ...

This time around, we hear the orchestral music that shows what Bruce was up to in this week's puzzler. It's the last of the Four Symphonic Interludes from the opera Intermezzo, by Richard Strauss.

Two 20th-century works that depict their composers’ vastly divergent views of domestic life are on display for the New York City Opera’s abbreviated fall season. Leonard Bernstein’s only full-length ...

In Moliere's comedy, The Bourgeois Gentleman, the main character is utterly ridiculous: He tries just about anything to scratch his way into the noble upper class. Richard Strauss' music based on the ...