Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier
Live: Saturday, April 15 at 9:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, April 19 at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by Ed Ingraham one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Cast: Lise Davidsen (Marschallin), Isabel Leonard (Octavian), Erin Morley (Sophie), Katharine Goeldner (Annina), René Barbera (Italian Singer), Thomas Ebenstein (Valzacchi), Markus Brück (Faninal), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs)
A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover, Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Gu¨nther Groissbo¨ck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Bru¨ck is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-sie`cle staging.