Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier @ Zurich Opera House
Opernhaus Zürich
2025 · 3h 49m Comedy, Music
Overview
When Strauss and Hofmannsthal wrote «Der Rosenkavalier» – setting it in an imaginary Rococo Vienna and yet closely linked to the decadent fin de siècle – they created a profound social comedy. It is not without melancholy that the Marschallin lets her young lover Octavian go when he falls head over heels with Sophie, who hails from Faninal’s bourgeois household. As voluptuous as Strauss' score is, it contains tender moments of dream and melancholy. Director Lydia Steier stages Strauss’ opera according to an aesthetic concept by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. Diana Damrau sings the Marschallin. Joana Mallwitz, chief conductor at the Konzerthaus Berlin, conducts the Orchester der Oper Zürich.
Director and cast
- Diana Damrau as Die Feldmarschallin Fürstin Werdenberg
- Günther Groissböck as Der Baron Ochs von Lerchenau
- Bo Skovhus as Herr von Faninal
- Angela Brower as Octavian
- Emily Pogorelc as Sophie
- Christiane Kohl as Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin
- Irène Friedli as Annina
- Nathan Haller as Valzacchi
- Rebeca Olvera as Eine Modistin
- Johan Krogius as Der Hausmeister der Feldmarschallin/Ein Wirt
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