Organization

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Roland Schwab

Soprano (+1)

Lalit Worathepnitinan

First noble orphan

Tenor (+1)

Chong Sun

First lackey

Tenor

Min-Yong Kang

Baritone (+4)

Rudolf Pscheidl

Second lackey

Bass (+2)

Latchezar Spasov

Tenor (+2)

Horst Zalto

Third lackey

Željko Zaplatić

Baritone (+1)

Emmanouil Marinakis

Fourth lackey

Helmut Bogengruber

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Gabriele Rupprecht

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Piero Vinciguerra

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Bethany Yeaman

Second noble orphan

Mona Akinola

Third noble orphan

Soprano (+2)

Magdalena Anna Hofmann

The Marschallin

Bass (+3)

Martin Summer

Baron Ochs of Lerchenau

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Sophie Harmsen

Octavian

Baritone (+3)

Birger Radde

Lord of Faninal

Elizabeth Sutphen

Sophie

Tenor (+3)

Rainer Maria Röhr

Valzacchi

Irmgard Vilsmaier

Annina

Philipp Schöllhorn

A police inspector

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+1)

Carl Philipp Fromherz

Dramaturge

Thomas Rufin

Alexander Hüttner

The Marschallin's Major-Domo

Faninal's Major-Domo

Ein Notar

Tenor (+4)

Luke Sinclair

An innkeeper

An Italian singer

Ein Gelehrter

Shunsuke Fujita

Ein Friseur

Sylvia Offermans

Baritone (+2)

Vesselin Hristov

A vendor of pets

First waiter

Second waiter

Third waiter

Fourth waiter

Lighting designer

Richard Schlager

Soprano

Victoria Leshkevich

Marianne

Salzburger Landestheater

Chorus

Salzburger Landestheaters Chorus

Orchestra

Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg

Salzburg Festival and Theater Children's Choir

Felsenreitschule

Conductor

Leslie Suganandarajah

Tetiana Dyiu

A milliner

Yevheniy Kapitula

Contralto (+5)

Katrin Heles

Ein Flötist

Laura Rieger

Gabriel Venzago

Hazel McBain

Time is a strange thing. If you live like that, she's nothing at all. But then, all of a sudden, you feel nothing but them.” The sense of unstoppable change and the feeling of a new beginning hover over everything. The field marshal feels the same way when she is lying in bed with her lover Octavian one morning. When the intimate tête-à-tête is interrupted by the uncouth Baron Ochs, events take a turn for the worse. Octavian is unexpectedly appointed as his suitor and, as a cavalier of the roses, is supposed to ask for the hand of the young Sophie Faninal. But when the roses are handed over, the matchmaker and the bride fall in love.

With a lot of Viennese local color, Richard Strauss' and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's “Rosenkavalier” combines a comedy about love's twists and turns with a lively waltz, turbulent comedy and great profundity. In this opera, the small problems of everyday life are joined by existential questions about the fragility of human relationships and social order and combine to form one of the most human and moving stories in operatic history.

Already at the premiere in Dresden in 1911, “Der Rosenkavalier” became a veritable cult: special trains had to be organized for the performances in order to cope with the large crowds, cigarettes were renamed “Rosenkavalier” and figures from the carnival were always discovered in carnival parades Strauss opera. To this day it is considered a high point of the comic opera genre. With a lot of humor and incomparable sensitivity, the music and text (which in itself already counts as part of world literature) draw three-dimensional figures with rough edges. The opera creates a lively picture of society at the end of the Habsburg Empire, a time that is considered a key phase in Austrian history.

With "Der Rosenkavalier" Richard Strauss created a musically and scenically demanding work that represents a great effort for every house. Now the Salzburg State Theater is bringing this unique opera to the stage in cooperation with the Salzburg Cultural Association for its 75th anniversary. With the production in the Felsenreitschule, a good tradition of cooperation is continued.

Music director Leslie Suganandarajah and director Roland Schwab will bring to life the "comedy for music" - as it was dubbed by its creators. Schwab is once again working with stage designer Piero Vinciguerra. The team was already able to inspire the audience at the Felsenreitschule with the successful production "Lohengrin", which was nominated twice for the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2021.

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