Preview: Things get personal in 'Intermezzo,' a Pennsylvania premiere

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Benedick’s immortal line from Shakepeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing” does not appear in Richard Strauss’s opera “Intermezzo.” It aptly describes, however, the protagonists of the opera in which the German composer immortalized his family and the stormy relationship that existed between the peripatetic, self-absorbed musician and his imperious, shrewish wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna. Their marriage was loving but turbulent, and when Strauss wanted to compose a domestic comedy, he turned inward.