This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors. Susan Graham is the aristocratic young Octavian, torn between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts.
as Princess von Werdenberg
as Octavian
as Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
as Sophie
as Faninal
as Self - Host
as Annina
as Leopold
as Mohammed
as Marianne
as The Princess's Major-Domo
as Faninal's Major-Domo
as A Noble Widow
as A Milliner
as An Animal Vendor
as Valzacchi
as A Notary
as A Singer
as A Hairdresser
as An Innkeeper
as A Police Commissary
