The Metropolitan Opera Capriccio (2011)

Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine the beautiful enigmatic woman at the center of Strausss 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 Countesss brother John Coxs elegant production places the action in the 1920s Andrew Davis conducts