23/04/2004

Richard Strauss? No thanks - reader feedback

Alan Douglas writes:

Capriccio is a miracle of opera writing, and a delightful essay discussing the relative importance of the words and the music, executed in an engagingly gamesy way.

I recommend you watch the Glyndebourne recording with Elizabeth Soderstrom, on an evening when you are wide awake, patient, and willing to delve.

I saw it 25-30 years ago, and still it gives me thrills.

If anyone knows how to get a CD or video of this, pleeeease let me know (via editor@musicforgrownups.co.uk)!

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