Organization

Festtage Berlin

Lighting designer

Olaf Freese

Dramaturge

Günter Jäckle

Philip Hillers

Singer

Soprano

Camilla Nylund

The Marschallin

Bass

Christof Fischesser

Baron Ochs of Lerchenau

Mezzo-soprano

Michèle Losier

Octavian

Baritone

Thomas Oliemans

Lord of Faninal

Siobhan Stagg

Sophie

Anna Samuil

Marianne

Tenor

Karl-Michael Ebner

Valzacchi

Anna Kissjudit

Annina

Benjamin Chamandy

A police inspector

Florian Hoffmann

The Marschallin's Major-Domo

Spencer Britten

Faninal's Major-Domo

Zilvinas Miskinis

Ein Notar

Magnus Dietrich

An innkeeper

Piotr Buszewski

An Italian singer

Clara Nadeshdin

A milliner

Stage director

André Heller-Lopes

Conductor

Simone Young

Costume designer

Arthur Arbesser

Set designer

Xenia Hausner

Video designer

Alexandra Ionis

Dan Karlström

State Opera Berlin

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Staatskapelle Berlin

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Staatsopernchor Berlin

German

Der Rosenkavalier -  (The Knight of the Rose)

Berlin

Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Der Rosenkavalier Strauss,R

Public

Private

The Knight of the Rose

English

Approved

DER ROSENKAVALIER I Spielzeit 2019/20 I Komödie für Musik in drei Aufzügen (1911) I Musik von Richard Strauss I Text von Hugo von HofmannsthalDER ROSENKAVALI...

Trouble with relatives does not stop at the Viennese aristocracy either: the uncouth Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau interrupts the morning tête-à-tête of his cousin, the field marshal, with her young lover Octavian, in order to arrange her for his wedding plans, which are more driven by pecuniary interests to ask for help. Little does he know that Octavian, destined to be the Rosenkavalier, will eventually fall in love with the bride himself...

After the archaic-dramatic one-act operas »Salome« and »Elektra«, Richard Strauss was looking for a lighter, more cheerful subject for his next opera in the style of Mozart's operatic comedies - a suggestion that Hugo von Hofmannsthal was also happy to accept. With his libretto, he created an artificial rococo Vienna with customs and dialects that were as convincing as they were invented, which Strauss refined musically with anachronistic waltzes. In this fantasy Vienna full of joie de vivre, farces and traditional class boundaries, but also full of depression and morbidity, not only the 18th century is reflected, but even more so the Belle Époque, which is coming to an end. Strauss' score once again offers the full range of orchestral timbres, almost unrestrained indulgence, which culminates in the final trio, which is unsurpassed in terms of musical beauty, but also shows deep breaks. Only a few years before the collapse of the Danube monarchy, »Der Rosenkavalier« became the swan song for an entire era.

The Knight of the Rose by Strauss, From (2022/2022), Directed by André Heller-Lopes,, Conductor Simone Young, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

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