Released:
2011-04-23

Overview:
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.

Directors:
Gary Halvorson, John Cox

Runtime:
2h 29min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Renée Fleming
  as
  The Countess
• 
  Sarah Connolly
  as
  Clairon
• 
  Joseph Kaiser
  as
  Flamand
• 
  Morten Frank Larsen
  as
  Count
• 
  Russell Braun
  as
  Olivier