Conductor Vladimir Jurowski
Director Barrie Kosky
Set Designer Rufus Didwiszus
Costume Designer Victoria Behr
Die Feldmarschallin Marlis Petersen
Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau Brindley Sherratt
Octavian Samantha Hankey
Herr von Faninal Johannes Martin Kränzle
Sophie Liv Redpath
Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin Daniela Köhler
Valzacchi Gerhard Siegel
Annina Claudia Mahnke
Ein Polizeikommissar Martin Snell
Der Haushofmeister bei der Feldmarschallin Kevin Conners
Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal Samuel Stopford
Ein Notar Christian Rieger
Ein Wirt Kevin Conners
Ein Sänger Galeano Salas
Adelige Waise Seonwoo Lee Eirin Rognerud Ekaterine Buachidze
Eine Modistin Louise Foor
Ein Tierhändler Dafydd Jones
Kinder Ekaterine Buachidze Louise Foor Seonwoo Lee Eirin Rognerud Dafydd Jones
A strange thing, Der Rosenkavalier . Richard Strauss had just earned a reputation as a bogeyman on the opera stage with Salome and Elektra , and had, as he himself wrote, "pushed the limits of what today's ears can absorb" – only to then, together with his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, conquer the audience with, of all things, the anachronistic waltzes of a comedy of the high nobility in an imagined Vienna of an 18th century. The wonderful thing about this strangeness is that Strauss and Hofmannsthal take the artificiality of this world to extremes in language and music, allowing it to grow into a dreamlike and nightmarish scenario in which there is room for all the themes that make Der Rosenkavalier so captivating: the possibilities and impossibility of love, the urgency and relentlessness of the passing of time, the indispensability and relentless conditionality of autonomy and freedom of choice.
Barrie Kosky's Rosenkavalier also pays tribute to less well-received sources of the work, such as the French operetta L'ingenu libertin by Claude Terrasse and Louis Artus, adding surprising facets to the beloved characters of Sophie and Octavian, Ochs and Marschallin, and adding an exciting chapter to the Munich production history of the work in opulent images.
For tickets and more information https://www.staatsoper.de/stuecke/der-rosenkavalier