Intermezzo – review

Opera House, BuxtonStrauss's Intermezzo was considered an embarrassment in some quarters until recently. First performed in 1924, it's a sardonic depiction of a period of strain in his own marriage, and even though the confessional element is often strong in the work of Romantic or post-Romantic artists, the autobiographical explicitness of Strauss's portrait – particularly of his temperamental wife, Pauline, as the opera's heroine Christine – led to charges of poor taste. More recently, tho...

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