The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
Plot: 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


Renée Fleming
Sarah Connolly
Joseph Kaiser
Russell Braun
Gary Halvorson
Richard Strauss
Peter Gelb