Organization

Regia

Regia (+1)

Roland Schwab

Soprano (+1)

Lalit Worathepnitinan

1. Orfana

Tenore (+1)

Chong Sun

1. Lacchè

Tenore

Min-Yong Kang

Baritono (+4)

Rudolf Pscheidl

2. Lacchè

Basso (+2)

Latchezar Spasov

Tenore (+2)

Horst Zalto

3. Lacchè

Željko Zaplatić

Baritono (+1)

Emmanouil Marinakis

4. Lacchè

Helmut Bogengruber

Costumi

Costumi (+1)

Gabriele Rupprecht

Scenografia

Scenografia (+1)

Piero Vinciguerra

Mezzosoprano (+2)

Bethany Yeaman

2. Orfana

Mona Akinola

3. Orfana

Soprano (+2)

Magdalena Anna Hofmann

La Marescialla, principessa di Werdenberg

Basso (+3)

Martin Summer

Il barone Ochs di Lerchenau

Mezzosoprano (+5)

Sophie Harmsen

Octavian

Baritono (+3)

Birger Radde

Il signore di Faninal

Elizabeth Sutphen

Sophie

Tenore (+3)

Rainer Maria Röhr

Valzacchi

Irmgard Vilsmaier

Annina

Philipp Schöllhorn

Un commissario di polizia

Direzione del coro

Direttore d'orchestra (+1)

Carl Philipp Fromherz

Drammaturgo

Thomas Rufin

Alexander Hüttner

Il Maggiordomo della Marescialla

Il Maggiordomo di Faninal

Ein Notar

Tenore (+4)

Luke Sinclair

Un oste

Un cantante

Ein Gelehrter

Shunsuke Fujita

Ein Friseur

Sylvia Offermans

Baritono (+2)

Vesselin Hristov

Un venditore di animali

1. Cameriere

2. Cameriere

3. Cameriere

4. Cameriere

Luci

Richard Schlager

Soprano

Victoria Leshkevich

La signorina Marianne Leitmetzerin

Salzburger Landestheater

Chorus

Chor des Salzburger Landestheaters

Orchestra

Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor

Felsenreitschule

Direttore d'orchestra

Leslie Suganandarajah

Tetiana Dyiu

Una modista

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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