Strauss
Performed by THE COVENT GARDEN OPERA COMPANY
From THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE,
BIRMINGHAM
Act III-A private room in an Inn
Conductor, JOHN BARBIROLLI
RICHARD STRAUSS describes his opera The
Rose Cavalier as a comedy for music. To the ordinary listener it is much the easiest of all his works to understand and enjoy. There is nothing abstruse or unkindly in it, and the waltz tunes in which it abounds make it plain how rich a vein of natural melody is his to draw upon when he chooses. The opera has a special interest in being the first which a composer has arranged also in a film version, modifying the music to suit the film. It was produced in that form in London under Dr. Strauss' own direction in April, 1926.