der rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier
Comedy for Music in three acts (1911)
- Music
- Richard Strauss
- Libretto
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Conductor
- Philippe Jordan
- Director
- Herbert Wernicke
- Die Feldmarschallin
- Michaela Kaune
- Der Baron Ochs
- Peter Rose
- Octavian
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Daniela Sindram
Stéphanie Houtzeel - Herr Von Faninal
- Martin Gantner
- Sophie
- Erin Morley
- Marianne Leitmetzerin
- Irmgard Vilsmaier
- Valzacchi
- Dietmar Kerschbaum
- Annina
- Eve-Maud Hubeaux
- Ein Sänger
- Francesco Demuro
- Ein Polizeikommissar
- Jan Stáva
- Der haushofmeister bei der Feldmarschallin
- Charles Reid
- Der haushofmeister bei Faninal
- Peter Galliard
- Ein Notar
- Martin Snell
- Ein Wirt
- Robert Wörle
- Eine Modistin
- Ruzan Mantashyan
- Drei adelige Waisen
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Carole Colineau
Laetitia Jeanson
Olga Oussova - Ein Tierhändler
- Emanuel Mendes
- Vier lakaien der marschallin
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Chae Hoon Baek
Jian-Hong Zhao
Olivier Fillon
Lucio Prete - Vier kellner
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Hyoung-Min Oh
Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou
Julien Joguet
Frédéric Guieu - Ein Hausknecht
- Laurent Laberdesque
- Set design
- Herbert Wernicke
- Costume design
- Herbert Wernicke
- Lighting design
- Werner Breitenfelder
- Chorus master
- José Luis Basso
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Paris Opera Children's Chorus
Coproduction with the Salzburg Festival
French and English surtitles
about
"Time is a strange thing. As our lives go by , it means absolutely nothing. And then, one fine day, we are aware of nothing else. It is all around us. It trickles over our faces, it trickles over the mirror, it streams between my temples."- Der Rosenkavalier, Act I
“The Marschallin, Ochs, Octavian, wealthy Faninal and his daughter… it is as if the vital links forged between these characters have existed for a very long time. Today, they no longer belong to me, nor to the composer. They belong to the bizarrely lit, ever-shifting world of the theatre where they have survived for a certain time and may well continue to do so for some time to come.” Herbert Wernicke's vision appropriates and builds on this evocation of Der Rosenkavalier by its librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
One of the major stage directors of the last quarter of the 20th century, who died before his time, Wernicke took pains over even the most minute elements of his productions. Born out of a theatrical reflection with an uncompromising approach to tradition, his breath-taking sets are first and foremost an extraordinary theatrical machine where illusion lends itself to illusion in an infinite game of mirrors in a twilight Vienna of deceptive rococo reflections: each character donning a mask, whether out of self-importance, naivety or coquetry. Would the Marschallin still gaze into the mirror if the only thing she saw were the marks of passing time? After an eleven-year absence, Anja Harteros returns to the Paris Opera in one of the finest roles in the repertoire, under the baton of conductor Philippe Jordan.
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