The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

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.

Director: Robert Carsen, Gary Halvorson

Cast: Lise Davidsen, Erin Morley, Samantha Hankey, Katharine Goeldner, René Barbera, Thomas Ebenstein, Brian Mulligan, Günther Groissböck

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.