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The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
20100.0out of 100 votes
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.
Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete
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Cast

Renée Fleming
Princess von Werdenberg

Susan Graham
Octavian
Kristinn Sigmundsson
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau

Christine Schäfer
Sophie

Thomas Allen
Faninal

Plácido Domingo
Self - Host

Wendy White
Annina
Stephen Paynter
Leopold
Nicholas Crawford
Mohammed
Erica Strauss
Marianne

Bernard Fitch
The Princess's Major-Domo
Ronald Naldi
Faninal's Major-Domo
Ellen Lang
A Noble Widow
Charlotte Philley
A Milliner
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