On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Richard Strauss' last opera, "Capriccio." The performance will begin at noon at the AMC Town Plaza 5 in Cape Girardeau.

If the term “inner migration” can fairly describe the mind-set of musicians who chose to remain in Germany during World War II, then Richard Strauss took the ultimate trip. Consider Capriccio, his ...

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The Metropolitan Opera has revived Richard Strauss' "Capriccio" for reigning diva Renee Fleming. In this we have the happy combination of artistry and execution: Fleming has earned a well-deserved ...

Richard Strauss's Capriccio is an opera within an opera on the unlikely and self-conscious subject of opera itself. In the course of what is essentially a 2½-hour conversation about aesthetics, a poet ...

Renee Fleming has taken her time bringing one of her most celebrated operatic roles, Countess Madeleine in Richard Strauss’ “Capriccio,” to the company for which she serves as creative consultant. But ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In his last opera, Strauss returned to a subject he knew more than a little about — creating an opera — and treated ...