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Richard Strauss: Intermezzo / Deutsche Oper Berlin

Richard Strauss' Intermezzo staged by Tobias Kratzer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin featuring superbly characterful cast conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.

A bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes in two acts, Op. 72, TrV 246 (1924)
Libretto by the composer

Part II of Tobias Kratzer’s Strauss triptych at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Richard Strauss described his two-act opera Intermezzo as a ‘bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes’. The soprano role of Christine with her shimmering cantilenas represents Strauss’s wife Pauline, while the successful Court Conductor Robert Storch is Richard Strauss’s alter ego in a reality drama that was avant-garde for its time. This acclaimed production from director Tobias Kratzer brings Intermezzo into the present day, highlighting Strauss’s own clever switches between reality and fiction with stunning visual effects and a superbly characterful cast.

Court Conductor Robert Storch PHILIPP JEKAL Baritone
Christine, his wife MARIA BENGTSSON Soprano
Franzl, their son ELLIOTT WOODRUFF Actor
Anna, the chambermaid ANNA SCHOECK Soprano
Baron Lummer THOMAS BLONDELLE Tenor

Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Conductor SIR DONALD RUNNICLES
Stage Director TOBIAS KRATZER

Video Director GÖTZ FILENIUS
Filmed on 1 and 5 May at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany
A production by Deutsche Oper Berlin and Naxos in association with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

2.110780 / NBD0188V
Total playing time: 158 minutes
Language: German • Subtitles: German, English, Japanese, Korean
DVD: NTSC 16:9 • Dolby Digital 2.0 and DTS-Surround 5.1 • Region: 0 (worldwide) • DVD 9
BD: HD 16:9 • PCM stereo and DTS-MA Surround 5.1 • Region: A, B, C • BD 50