Organization

Conductor

Simone Young

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Paul Steinberg

Costume designer

Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Choreographer

Philippe Giraudeau

Singer

Soprano

Lise Davidsen

The Marschallin

Erin Morley

Sophie

Mezzo-soprano

Katharine Goeldner

Annina

Tenor

René Barbera

An Italian singer

Kang Wang

Bass

Günther Groissböck

Baron Ochs of Lerchenau

Thomas Ebenstein

Valzacchi

Teatro Colón

Samantha Hankey

Octavian

Christina Thomson-Anderson

Second noble orphan

Contralto

Catherine MiEun Choi-Steckmeyer

Third noble orphan

Marco Antonio Jordão

First lackey

Scott Dispensa

Second lackey

Patrick Miller

Third lackey

Jonathan Scott

Fourth lackey

Thomas J Capobianco

First waiter

Daniel Rich

Second waiter

Paul Corona

Third waiter

Christopher Job

Fourth waiter

Baritone

Brian Mulligan

Lord of Faninal

Chorus master

Donald Palumbo

Alexandra LoBianco

Marianne

Scott Conner

A police inspector

Scott Scully

The Marschallin's Major-Domo

Corey Bix

Faninal's Major-Domo

Bradley Garvin

Ein Notar

Anne Nonemacher

A milliner

Dustin Lucas

A vendor of pets

Lianne Coble-Dispensa

First noble orphan

Teatro Regio di Torino

Royal Opera House

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Alexandra Nowakowski

German

Der Rosenkavalier -  (The Knight of the Rose)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin. Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey will make her Met role debut singing Octavian in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, replacing Isabel Leonard, who has withdrawn.

Soprano Erin Morley stars as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging.

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