This masterpiece is set in high society Vienna, and portrays in elegant and exquisite music about memories of times gone by and of young, new love. Master director Jonathan MILLER excels at detailed character portrayal, and in moving the action from that pinnacle of aristocratic culture, 18th century Vienna, to 1912, which is one year after the first staging of "Der Rosenkavalier", he has the work impart a sense of the vicissitudes of time that audiences at the time would have experienced. Those who appeared on stage then, as well as the famous duo of composer (Richard STRAUSS) and librettist (Hugo von HOFMANNSTHAL) all lived in an age over which the darkening clouds of strife were gathering, on the brink of war. The wise Marschallin sings that "she wants to stop the clock", and in doing so feels not only the relentless encroachment of age and resignation at having parted from her young lover, but a sense, too, of a generational shift.

The Marschallin is played by the world-class Wagnerian soprano, Ricarda MERBETH. Baron Ochs is played by Jürgen LINN. Sophie is played by Golda SCHULTZ, who has had enormous success in this role and appears at the New National Theatre Tokyo for the first time. Octavian is played by Stephanie ATANASOV. The conductor is the maestro Ulf SCHIRMER.

Staff

Conductor　Ulf SCHIRMER 1

Production　Jonathan MILLER 2

Set and Costume Design　Isabella BYWATER

Lighting Design　ISONO Mutsumi

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Cast

Die Feldmarschallin　Ricarda MERBETH 3

Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau　Jürgen LINN 4

Octavian　Stephanie ATANASOV 5

Herr von Faninal　Clemens UNTERREINER 6

Sophie　Golda SCHULTZ 7

Marianne　MASUDA Noriko 8

Valzacchi　UCHIYAMA Shingo 9

Annina　KANOH Etsuko 10

Ein Polizeikommissar　HASEGAWA Akira 11

Der Haushofmeister bei der Feldmarschallin　MASUJIMA Tadahiro 12

Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal　AKITANI Naoyuki 13

Ein Notar　HARE MASAHIKO 14

Ein Wirt　KAMOSHITA Minoru 15

Ein Sänger　MIZUGUCHI Satoshi 16

Eine Modistin　SATO Michiko 17

Ein Tierhändler　AOCHI Hideyuki 18


Chorus　New National Theatre Chorus

Orchestra　Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

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