Richard Strauss: Capriccio

About the Event

Capriccio is the final opera composed by Richard Strauss, assigned a special category the composer himself defined as “Konversationsstück für Musik,” a conversation piece for music.

In this single‐act opera, Strauss utilized the musical forms fashionable at the end of the 18th century in an extraordinarily virtuoso manner: octets, complex groupings of instruments and fugues are heard within it, while at the same time the whole is characterized by the restraint and moderation of the Viennese Classical period.

Director: Rebekka Stanzel
Set design, costumes: Markus Pysall
Featuring: National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir (choirmaster: Mátyás Antal)
Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis