Organization

Singer

Soprano

Renée Fleming

The Marschallin

Mezzo-soprano

Susan Graham

Octavian

Bass

Kristinn Sigmundsson

Baron Ochs of Lerchenau

Baritone

Hans-Joachim Ketelsen

Lord of Faninal

Thomas Allen

Tenor

Bernard Fitch

The Marschallin's Major-Domo

Ronald Naldi

Faninal's Major-Domo

Jennifer Check

Marianne

Jeremy Galyon

A police inspector

Christine Schäfer

Sophie

Miah Persson

Wendy White

Annina

Rodell Rosel

Valzacchi

Barry Banks

An Italian singer

Eric Cutler

Ramón Vargas

Tony Stevenson

An innkeeper

Conductor

Edo de Waart

Stage director

Nathaniel Merrill

Costume designer

Robert O'Hearn

Set designer

Erica Strauss

James Courtney

Ein Notar

Sam Meredith

Ein Friseur

Ellen Lang

Eine adelige Witwe

Charlotte Philley

A milliner

Kurt Phinney

A vendor of pets

Belinda Thayer Oswald

First noble orphan

Lee Hamilton

Second noble orphan

Contralto

Patricia Steiner

Third noble orphan

Daniel Clark Smith

First lackey

Kenneth Floyd

Second lackey

Marty Singleton

Third lackey

Robert Maher

Fourth lackey

Robin Guarino

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Ġermaniż

Der Rosenkavalier -  (The Knight of the Rose)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

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.

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