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Setting and story summary. Der Rosenkavalier is set in Vienna in the mid-1700s. Act I. In the Marschallin’s bedroom she and her young lover, Octavian, are awakening from a rapturous night. Octavian hides quickly as a servant comes in with breakfast. Soon after he returns to bed, there is a clamour in the outer room.
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Richard Strauss in 1910. Der Rosenkavalier ( The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer [1] ), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. [2] It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai 's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Molière 's comedy Monsieur de ...
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- 26 January 1911, Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden
Dec 14, 2016 · Wed 14 Dec 2016 06.38 EST. G iven the opera’s predilection for consumptive courtesans and misogynistic murderers, scheduling one for the festive season can be a tricky business. But Richard...
But the poet’s invention ingeniously captures the sense of nostalgia that permeates this piece: Der Rosenkavalier is set in a world that—whether real or not—seems almost too charming, too magical to last. “It might appear as if here were painted, with diligence and effort, the image of a time past,” Hofmannsthal himself wrote in an ...
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Jun 4, 2017 · The setting is 18 th century Vienna. There are four main protagonists: The Marschallin; her lover, Count Octavian Rofrano; the lecherous cousin Baron Ochs (pronounced “ox” rather than “oaks” for...
Apr 7, 2017 · Classical Music. “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....
