This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors. Susan Graham is the aristocratic young Octavian, torn between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts.
Molière
Writer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Writer
Barbara Willis Sweete
Director
Renée Fleming
Princess von Werdenberg
Susan Graham
Octavian
Kristinn Sigmundsson
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
Christine Schäfer
Sophie
Thomas Allen
Faninal
Plácido Domingo
Self - Host
Wendy White
Annina
Stephen Paynter
Leopold
Nicholas Crawford
Mohammed
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tick, tick... BOOM!75%
Antares59%
