Release Date

09 Jan, 2010

Runtime

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Synopsis

This 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.

Original Title

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

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Actors

Renée Fleming

Susan Graham

Kristinn Sigmundsson

Christine Schäfer

Thomas Allen

Plácido Domingo

Wendy White

Stephen Paynter

Nicholas Crawford

Erica Strauss

Bernard Fitch

Ronald Naldi

Ellen Lang

Charlotte Philley

Kurt Phinney

Rodell Rosel

James Courtney

Eric Cutler

Sam Meredith

Tony Stevenson

Jeremy Galyon

Crew

Edo de Waart

Robin Guarino

Victoria Warivonchik

Louisa Briccetti

Nancy McNamara

Tom Watson

Elena Park

Richard Strauss

Robert O'Hearn

Jay David Saks

Molière

Louvet de Couvrai

Robert O'Hearn

William Malloy