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.

• Robert CarsenDirector
• Gary HalvorsonDirector
• Hugo von HofmannsthalWriter

• Lise DavidsenMarschallin
• Erin MorleySophie
• Samantha HankeyOctavian
• Katharine GoeldnerAnnina
• René BarberaItalian Singer
• Thomas EbensteinValzacchi
• Brian MulliganFaninal
• Günther GroissböckBaron Ochs