Der Rosenkavalier Poster

Der Rosenkavalier

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When Strauss and Hofmannsthal wrote «Der Rosenkavalier» – setting it in an imaginary Rococo Vienna and yet closely linked to the decadent fin de siècle – they created a profound social comedy. It is not without melancholy that the Marschallin lets her young lover Octavian go when he falls head over heels with Sophie, who hails from Faninal’s bourgeois household. As voluptuous as Strauss' score is, it contains tender moments of dream and melancholy. Director Lydia Steier stages Strauss’ opera according to an aesthetic concept by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. Diana Damrau sings the Marschallin. Joana Mallwitz, chief conductor at the Konzerthaus Berlin, conducts the Orchester der Oper Zürich.

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Richard Strauss
Music
Lydia Steier
Director
Lydia Steier
Stage Director
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Cast

Diana Damrau
Diana Damrau
Die Feldmarschallin Fürstin Werdenberg
Günther Groissböck
Günther Groissböck
Der Baron Ochs von Lerchenau
Bo Skovhus
Bo Skovhus
Herr von Faninal
Angela Brower
Angela Brower
Octavian

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