The 2024 Edinburgh international festival, and the residency at the event by the Philharmonia Orchestra, ended with a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s last opera, Capriccio, a piece forever tainted by the Third Reich approval of its first performance in Munich in 1942.
It was programmed by the festival’s former head of music, Andrew Moore, as a celebration of the EIF’s partnership with Sir Andrew Davis, conductor of unforgettable Wagner opera concerts at the Usher Hall in recent years, who made his opera-conducting debut with the work at Glyndebourne half a century previously.
