The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier (2010)

This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors. Susan Graham is the aristocratic young Octavian, torn between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts.

Director: Barbara Willis Sweete

Casts

	Renée Fleming as Princess von Werdenberg
	Susan Graham as Octavian
	Kristinn Sigmundsson as Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
	Christine Schäfer as Sophie
	Thomas Allen as Faninal
	Plácido Domingo as Self - Host
	Wendy White as Annina
	Stephen Paynter as Leopold
	Nicholas Crawford as Mohammed
	Erica Strauss as Marianne
	Bernard Fitch as The Princess's Major-Domo
	Ronald Naldi as Faninal's Major-Domo
	Ellen Lang as A Noble Widow
	Charlotte Philley as A Milliner
	Kurt Phinney as An Animal Vendor
	Rodell Rosel as Valzacchi
	James Courtney as A Notary
	Eric Cutler as A Singer
	Sam Meredith as A Hairdresser
	Tony Stevenson as An Innkeeper
	Jeremy Galyon as A Police Commissary

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