One May morning in 1902, Pauline Strauss opened a telegram addressed to her husband. "I waited for you as usual in the Union Bar but alas," it said. "Please send me tickets for Monday and Wednesday.

Deutsche Oper Berlin continues its Strauss trilogy with this wittily staged, gorgeously sung production of Intermezzo, which blows the cobwebs off Strauss’ opera with startling results The flip side ...

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.

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 ...

VIENNA, AustriaVIENNA, Austria — It’s a story as old as marriage, and it was told delightfully Saturday in a new production of Richard Strauss’ “Intermezzo.” Praise to the composer first for squeezing ...

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, under their Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, presents the second volume in their live series of Richard Strauss’ orchestral works. The inspiration for Ein ...

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 ...

Anita Bader and Roland Wood both excel in "Intermezzo" by Strauss Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo has been described as music’s finest existing portrait of a marriage. That is surely true, yet it is ...

AS MOZART’S Cosi Fan Tutte deals with the emotional traumas of teenagers, it is a distinct advantage for the cast to seem youthful. In casting Andreea Soare and Kathryn Rudge as sisters Fiordiligi and ...