Der Rosenkavalier

  • 2010/2011 Season
  • Richard Strauss:Der Rosenkavalier
    Opera in 3 Acts
    Sung in German with Japanese Supertitles
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Artistic Director Otaka Tadaaki (2010/2011 season) has a special fondness for the late German romantics. This production from 2007 is by the great British opera director, Jonathan Miller. Whereas the historical backdrop of the original version is that of 18th century Vienna at the height of aristocratic culture, this one is set in 1912. What the two versions have in common is that in both, the opera's characters – and the composer and the librettist – live in a time in which dark clouds gather overhead, as their societies brace for war. The field marshal's wife is a sagacious woman. She sings of how she wants to stop the clock. She sings of her resignation toward breaking up with her young lover, and the relentless march of time as we age, but she also senses the way that the world on the whole is changing.

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