Intermezzo (opera)

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This article is about the opera by Richard Strauss. For other uses, see Intermezzo (disambiguation).

Intermezzo is a Bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen (town comedy with symphonic interludes) or opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to his own German libretto. It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on November 4, 1924.

[edit] Roles

		Premiere, November 4, 1924 (Fritz Busch)
Christine	soprano	Lotte Lehmann
Robert Storch, her husband, a conductor	baritone	Joseph Correck
Anna, their maid	soprano
Franzl, their eight-year-old son	spoken
Baron Lummer	tenor
The notary	baritone
His wife	soprano
Stroh, another conductor	tenor
A commercial counselor	baritone
A legal counsellor	baritone
A singer	bass
Fanny, the Storch's cook'	spoken
Marie and Therese, maids	spoken
Resi, a young girl	soprano