Release Date

21 Sep, 2025

Runtime

03:49: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Opernhaus Zürich

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.

Original Title

Der Rosenkavalier

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Actors

Diana Damrau

Günther Groissböck

Bo Skovhus

Angela Brower

Emily Pogorelc

Christiane Kohl

Irène Friedli

Nathan Haller

Rebeca Olvera

Johan Krogius

Stanislav Vorobyov

Omer Kobiljak

Joana Mallwitz

Crew

Richard Strauss

Lydia Steier

Lydia Steier

Joana Mallwitz

Tabatha McFadyen

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Gottfried Helnwein

Gottfried Helnwein

Elana Siberski

Michael Beyer