Richard Strauss' last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way. Which came first the words or the music? That is the question Strauss and his librettist Clemens Krauss address through the story of a Countess torn between a composer and a poet.
Austria,
Germany
163 minutes
2013
Brian Large
C major

2001
6.5

1969
6.7

2004
6.5

1981
6.3

1987
6.8

2015
0.0

2004
0.0

1990
0.0

1965
5.0

2019
0.0

2015
0.0

2019
7.7

2015
0.0

2006
0.0

1986
0.0

2004
0.0
2005
0.0

1966
7.9

2004
7.2

2016
0.0