Der Rosenkavalier
21/09/2025
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.
Movie Information
Diana Damrau
as Die Feldmarschallin Fürstin Werdenberg
Günther Groissböck
as Der Baron Ochs von Lerchenau
Bo Skovhus
as Herr von Faninal
Angela Brower
as Octavian
Emily Pogorelc
as Sophie
Christiane Kohl
as Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin
Irène Friedli
as Annina
Nathan Haller
as Valzacchi
Rebeca Olvera
as Eine Modistin
Johan Krogius
as Der Hausmeister der Feldmarschallin/Ein Wirt
Stanislav Vorobyov
as Ein Polizeikommissar
Omer Kobiljak
as Ein italienischer Sänger
