"Der Rosenkavalier" Opera by Richard Strauss

Dear friends,

Rosenkavalier is the first new production under the new director of Zurich Opera.
This production won´t be anything then exceptional:

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.

Der Rosenkavalier follows Octavian, a young nobleman in 18th-century Vienna, who is engaged in a love affair with the older Marschallin. When the crude Baron Ochs wishes to marry the young Sophie, the Marschallin's cousin, she suggests Octavian serve as the traditional messenger to present Sophie with a silver rose. Octavian falls in love with the innocent Sophie, leading to a series of chaotic events and mistaken identities involving Ochs and his servants.

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Looking forward seeing you Fri, Oct 17th at Zurich Opera.