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05/13/17 – Der Rosenkavalier – 1PM

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Metropolitan Opera

Der Rosenkavalier
Composed by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  • sung in German
  • ESTIMATED RUN TIME 4 HRS 12 MINS
  • front page photo credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
The dream cast of Renée Fleming as the Marschallin and Elīna Garanča as Octavian star in Strauss’s grandest opera. In his new production, Robert Carsen, the director behind the Met’s recent Falstaff, places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera’s subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask, in a staging that also stars Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs. Sebastian Weigle conducts the sparklingly perfect score.

Sebastian Weigle

CONDUCTOR  Sebastian Weigle

Renée Fleming

MARSCHALLIN  Renée Fleming

Elīna Garanča

OCTAVIAN  Elīna Garanča

Erin Morley

SOPHIE  Erin Morley

A SINGER Matthew Polenzani

Markus Brück

FANINAL  Markus Brück

BARON OCHS  Günther Groissböck

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