The Metropolitan Opera: CapriccioMovie
Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s sophisticated “Conversation Piece for Music.” She is being courted by two men: Joseph Kaiser sings the composer, Flamand, and Russell Braun is Olivier, the poet. The stellar cast also includes Peter Rose as the theater director La Roche, Sarah Connolly as the actress Clairon, and Morten Frank Larsen as the Countess’s brother. John Cox’s elegant production places the action in the 1920s. Andrew Davis conducts.
About The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio is a 2011 music movie directed by John Cox, Gary Halvorson.
The production information lists a runtime of 2h 29m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Morten Frank Larsen. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
