The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

Synopsis

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging 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 Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and baritone Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging.

Top cast

Lise Davidsen

Marschallin

Erin Morley

Sophie

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Samantha Hankey

Octavian

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Katharine Goeldner

Annina

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René Barbera

Italian Singer

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Thomas Ebenstein

Valzacchi

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Brian Mulligan

Faninal

Günther Groissböck

Baron Ochs