A composer-conductor sets out on a concert tour while his lonely wife heads for the ski slopes. A collision with a young baron on a toboggan wins her a new “friend”, adding to a romantic chaos of mistaken assumptions, high comedy, base jealousy, and glorious reconciliation. Strauss wrote both text and music for these semi-autobiographical “Scenes from a Marriage”.

Meghan DeWald starts at the determined Christine with Ryan Milstead as her distracted husband Robert, and Kyle Tomlin as Baron Lummer. Intermezzo is the fourth in our series of ravishing but lesser-known works by Strauss.

Sung in English with projected titles in English.

Celebrate Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s 40th season with the cast at the Opening night Party following the performance on Friday, July 21.

DISCOVER STRAUSS SERIES

Join us for a festive long weekend of fascinating events centered on Intermezzo and other rarely performed works of Richard Strauss. Your Strauss Pass gets you a discount to all the public ticketed events (lectures, recitals, opera, and more) and gains you admission to some unique private social dinners with stars from our Strauss constellation. Please see website for more details including hotel and restaurant partners.