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Jun 4, 2017 · Elīna Garanča as Octavian and Renée Fleming as the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Each character is confronted with one or more of these challenges during the course of the opera ...
Jul 19, 2014 · Sat 19 Jul 2014 03.30 EDT. Der Rosenkavalier represents the apogee of Richard Strauss's popularity, and perhaps of his life. He had a deep affection for it, a profound identification with it; in ...
Ultimately, Der Rosenkavalier contains some of the most sublime music known to man and the highlights, such as the “Presentation of the Silver Rose” scene and the concluding trio and duet, when the Marschallin renounces any claim on Rofrano and yields him to the ecstasy of love for Sophie,
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Dec 20, 2017 · Der Rosenkavalier is a particularly idiosyncratic case of remediation, and more precisely of a filmic adaptation of an opera. As is commonly known, this silent film is derived from the three-act “comedy for music” by Strauss and Hofmannsthal that premiered under the composer’s baton and with stage direction by Max Reinhardt , on 26 January 1911 at the Semperoper in Dresden.
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Dec 14, 2016 · Der Rosenkavalier is in rep at the Royal Opera House, London, from 17 December to 24 January. Box office: 020-7304 4000. Box office: 020-7304 4000. Explore more on these topics
Apr 7, 2017 · “Der Rosenkavalier,” in Its Era of Composition At the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Carsen sets the sumptuous opera in the year of its writing, right before the First World War. Ironies abound.
Der Rosenkavalier is dominated by its female vocal parts, although the music for the men is certainly effective. The young man Octavian is played by a mezzo-soprano (thus, a woman dressed in male clothing, known as a trouser, pants, or breeches role); one precedent for that circumstance is that of Mozart ’s Cherubino from The Marriage of Figaro .
