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 ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — The Ogunquit Performing Arts opens its 30th annual Capriccio Festival on Saturday, Sept. 10, with the Capriccio Festival of Kites at Ogunquit Beach. The annual event features ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — Ogunquit Performing Arts will present the 33rd Capriccio Music Festival this September, bringing together music, art, and community. The festival kicks off Saturday, Sept. 6, with ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But all these records were of reasonably well-known material. Less well known was the final scene of Capriccio.

Tchaikovsky soaks up the sounds of Rome and turns them into an infectious invitation to dance. Tchaikovsky's fantasy for orchestra is a richly descriptive portrait of Italy, written when the composer ...

In the last quarter-hour of Richard Strauss's Capriccio, the choice to be made by the Countess between text and music (embodied by the poet Olivier and the composer Flamand) becomes instinct with ...