Der Rosenkavalier

In the organizer's words:

Comedy for music in three acts by Richard Strauss

music theater
Marguerre Hall

Text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal / in German with surtitles

The composer Richard Strauss had requested a comedy from his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The premiere in Dresden in 1911 was a work that plays with confusion, gender trouble, irony and ambiguity, both linguistically and musically, but also points to love, life and transience in a cheerful and melancholy way.

The married field marshal Princess Werdenberg, who has not yet reached her prime, senses the passing of time and searches for an appropriate way to deal with it. This results in her philosophy: be easy, take it easy and leave it easy. And while her lover Octavian is still looking for his place in life, full of illusions, and her cousin, Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, wants to consolidate his position by marrying the much younger but rich bourgeois daughter Sophie, the marshal weaves the threads between the three of them in her own way.