The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
2010This 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.
Acted in
Renée Fleming
as Princess von Werdenberg
Susan Graham
as Octavian
Kristinn Sigmundsson
as Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
Christine Schäfer
as Sophie
Thomas Allen
as Faninal
Plácido Domingo
as Self - Host
Wendy White
as Annina
Stephen Paynter
as Leopold
Nicholas Crawford
as Mohammed
Erica Strauss
as Marianne
Bernard Fitch
as The Princess's Major-Domo
Ronald Naldi
as Faninal's Major-Domo
Ellen Lang
as A Noble Widow
Charlotte Philley
as A Milliner
Kurt Phinney
as An Animal Vendor
Rodell Rosel
as Valzacchi
James Courtney
as A Notary
Eric Cutler
as A Singer
Sam Meredith
as A Hairdresser
Tony Stevenson
as An Innkeeper
Jeremy Galyon
as A Police Commissary