Film

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

2010

This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors. Susan Graham is the aristocratic young Octavian, torn between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts.

Renée Fleming

Princess von Werdenberg

Susan Graham

Octavian

Kristinn Sigmundsson

Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau

Christine Schäfer

Sophie

Thomas Allen

Faninal

Plácido Domingo

Self - Host

Wendy White

Annina

Stephen Paynter

Leopold

Nicholas Crawford

Mohammed

Erica Strauss

Marianne

Bernard Fitch

The Princess's Major-Domo

Ronald Naldi

Faninal's Major-Domo

Ellen Lang

A Noble Widow

Charlotte Philley

A Milliner

Kurt Phinney

An Animal Vendor

Rodell Rosel

Valzacchi

• Barbara Willis SweeteDirector
• Hugo von HofmannsthalWriter
• MolièreWriter
• Louisa BriccettiProducer
• Victoria WarivonchikProducer
• Peter GelbExecutive Producer
• Richard StraussOriginal Music Composer

Release date

January 9, 2010

Status

Released

Original language

German