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Der Rosenkavalier

The Participants

Music by Richard Strauss - Libretto by Hugo von Hoffmansthal

World premiere at the Konigliches Opernhaus, Dresden, January 26, 1911

January 22, 23, 25, 27-30, 2000
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts


Conductor:
  Richard Buckley

Stage Director:

  Sandra Bernhard
Assistant Director
Doug Scholz-Carlson
Assistant Conductor
Scott Terrell
Set Designer::
Jorg Zimmermann
Lighting Designer:
Marcus Dilliard
Wig Master and Makeup Designer:
  Tom Watson
Fight Choreographer:
  Craig Carlson
Stage Manager:
  Alexander Farino
Chorusmaster:
  Paul Sahuc
German Language Coach
  Barbara Kierig
English Captions
  Floyd Anderson

 

THE CAST

The Feldmarschallin (Marschallin),
Marie Therese, Princess Werdenberg
Yvonne Kenney
Octavian, Count Rofrano
('Quinquin'), her young lover
  Emily Manhart
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, her cousin
  Peter Rose
Sophie von Faninal
  Elizabeth Comeaux
Herr von Faninal, Sohpie's father
  Paul Sahuc
Marianne, Sophie's duenna
  Stephanie Lewis
Valzacchi, an intriguer
  Dan Dressen
Annina, his niece and partner
  Jennifer Zabala
Italian singer
  Justin Vickers
Innkeeper
  Jeremy Cady
Major-Domos to the Marschallin and Herr von Faninal, a notary, a milliner, a pet vendor, an innkeeper, servants, lackies, hired deceivers, children, constables, Leopold


Setting: Vienna, Austria, in the mid-18th century



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Photos by Gary Mortensen


Scenery owned by the Dallas Opera. Costumes originally designed by Santa Fe Opera.

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