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Sung In German with English subtitles
All Tickets €10
Conductor Edo de Waart
Marschallin Renée Fleming
Octavian Susan Graham
Sophie Christine Schäfer
A Singer Eric Cutler
Faninal Thomas Allen
Baron Ochs Kristinn Sigmundsson
Production
Nathaniel Merrill
Set & Costume
Robert O’Hearn
Stage Director
Robin Guarino
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham reign supreme in Richard Strauss’s masterpiece. Kristinn Sigmundsson is Baron Ochs.
Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.[1] It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.
The opera has four main characters: the aristocratic Marschallin, her very young lover Octavian Rofrano, her coarse, skirt-chasing country cousin Baron Ochs, and his young prospective fiancée Sophie, the lovely daughter of a rich Viennese bourgeois. Baron Ochs, having arranged with Sophie's father Faninal to combine his noble rank with Faninal's money by marrying Sophie, asks the Marschallin to suggest an appropriate young man to be his Knight of the Rose, who will present a silver rose to Sophie on his behalf as a traditional symbol of courtship. She recommends Octavian.
When Octavian delivers the rose, he and Sophie fall in love on sight, and must figure out how to prevent Baron Ochs from marrying Sophie. They accomplish this in a comedy of errors that is smoothed over with the help of the Marschallin
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