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Apr 15, 2023 · A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart.
Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.
- German
- 26 January 1911, Königliches Opernhaus, Dresden
ROLL-IN C: Marschallin Intro. DEBORAH VOIGT: The Marschallin in the Met’s very first production of Der Rosenkavalier, in 1913, was German soprano Frieda Hempel, one of the brightest stars of opera’s Golden Age.
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Apr 5, 2023 · Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Der Rosenkavalier. Erin Morley & Samantha Hankey Deliver the Musical Goods in Strong Revival of Strauss Masterwork. By David Salazar
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Dec 15, 2019 · The conductor Simon Rattle, in a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera, leads an insightful account of Strauss’s best-known opera, with a winning cast.