Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier @ Zurich Opera House (2025)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Diana Damrau

Die Feldmarschallin Fürstin Werdenberg

Günther Groissböck

Der Baron Ochs von Lerchenau

Bo Skovhus

Herr von Faninal

Angela Brower

Octavian

Emily Pogorelc

Sophie

Christiane Kohl

Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin

Irène Friedli

Annina

Nathan Haller

Valzacchi

Rebeca Olvera

Eine Modistin

Johan Krogius

Der Hausmeister der Feldmarschallin/Ein Wirt

Stanislav Vorobyov

Ein Polizeikommissar

Omer Kobiljak

Ein italienischer Sänger

Director & Crew

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