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Richard Strauss – Intermezzo

by neilhowson | Aug 4, 2013 | Opera Plots

A bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes in two acts. Libretto by the composer. First performed in the Court Theatre in Dresden on 4 November 1924. Act 1 Scene 1 It is early one morning in the home of the conductor and court composer Robert Storch in Grundlsee....

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Niccolò van Westerhout – Doña Flor

Opera in one act. Libretto by Arturo Colautti. First performed on 18 April 1896 in the Teatro Communale in Mola di Bari (now named the Teatro Van Westerhout). The scene is Venice in the mid seventeenth century in the bedroom of Doña Flor, the wife of the Spanish Ambassador to Venice, Don Filippo Carlo […]

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For many years, I was involved with Scottish Opera, a company based in Glasgow, but touring its productions around Scotland both at full scale, although the number of suitable theatres for this is limited, and on the small scale, sometimes with just a handful of singers and a piano, in which case, any village hall […]

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