The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

Release Date: 2023-04-15

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Lise Davidsen

as Marschallin

Erin Morley

as Sophie

Samantha Hankey

as Octavian

Katharine Goeldner

as Annina

René Barbera

as Italian Singer