Two years later, I see reviews of her newest release, “Intermezzo,” that echo the same sentiment. But I find myself questioning this widely held point of view. Does “Intermezzo” actually ...

The author spoke with 'The Guardian' ahead of the publication of her highly-anticipated novel 'Intermezzo' In recent years, ...

Intermezzo, her fourth novel, is her most fully developed and moving yet. It’s about two Irish brothers, 32-year-old Peter Koubek, a Dublin lawyer, and 22-year-old Ivan, a chess prodigy, and their ...

The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has ... professional adroitness and sophistication. Richard’s formal academic ...

Sally Rooney’s newest novel, “Intermezzo,” was released on September 24, introducing its story with a quote by Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein: “But don’t you feel grief now? (But aren’t you ...

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, ...

Thibaudet was perhaps the living embodiment of Liszt had he been alive today, in an uncanny understanding of the composer ...

Name three operas framing dramas within, and you’d probably come up with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos ...

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The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann cover the ...