Der Rosenkavalier
- Location:
- Opernhaus Stuttgart, Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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Whatever pedigree old Ochs from Lerchenau may boast, young Count Octavian Rofrano has at least that much. On top of that, he’s strikingly handsome and a fine fellow to boot. So refined, so perfect—and above all, so completely different from everything around her—that when he presents her with a silver rose, Sophie feels as if she might die right then and there. And since returning is always such a tricky business—especially when it comes to the past—she senses: “And even if it were my death.” It will never again be as beautiful as it could have been. In their second collaboration, Axel Ranisch and Nicholas Carter explore the finely chiseled aestheticism of the *Rosenkavalier* score and stage what is probably the most melancholic comedy of all time as an icy fairy tale.
Comic opera in three acts
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
Approx. 4 hrs. 45 min., including two intermissions
A more precise duration will be announced at the premiere.