Live Opera tonight – Rosenkavalier from La Monnaie
OperaAvailable from today 16 November 2022 at earlier times than usual 1800 CET/ 1700 London/ 1200 New York
After opening the 2022-23 season in Brussels with Pikovaya Dama, La Monnaie / De Munt now streams Der Rosenkavalier live on Slippedisc courtesy of OperaVision. The mystery of time resonates throughout Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s highly spiritual and nostalgic libretto, for which Richard Strauss took a step back in time to eighteenth-century Vienna. Waltzing in neoclassical style, with sublime lyricism and a refined orchestral palette, the opera looks back to the past, faded beauty, lost loves. Director Damiano Michieletto sets this intimate study of the human psyche in a snow-white dreamworld embellished with a dash of humour and surrealism. Strauss’s wonderful score – one of the most refined in the entire repertoire – is set to blossom under the baton of Alain Altinoglu.
The Plot: the Marschallin is relishing time with her young lover, when her cousin’s sudden arrival ignites a comic chain of events. With honour at risk, social status bartered and happiness illusive, the Marschallin accepts time cannot be stopped and she must set young love free.
For those who can, have a read of dongio’s comment on the French opera site, ODB:
https://www.odb-opera.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24664
He was over the moon.
What a joy! Thank you so much for this.
I attended the opera a few days ago. The staging is superb.
Thanks for posting this; very interesting production and terrific performance. Rosenkavalier is one of my very favorite operas – up there with Tristan and Die Walkure – and I can’t get enough of it.