Capriccio
Subtitled »A Conversation Piece with Music«, Richard Strauss's »Capriccio«, which premiered in Munich in 1942, was the climax of the composer's stage work, a farewell to opera and a confi rmation of his (ambivalent) insistence on the autonomy of art at a time of total war. In a rococo chateau near Paris, the poet Olivier, the composer Flamand and the ...