| Der Rosenkavalier |
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| Leitmetzerin, Marianne sung by Heidi Melton - soprano |
| Octavian sung by Joyce DiDonato - mezzo-soprano (preparing for 1st Octavian) |
| Sophie sung by Miah Persson* - soprano |
| Faninal sung by Jochen Schmeckenbecher - baritone |
| Production- Lotfi Mansouri |
| Production Design - Thierry Bosquet |
| Baron Ochs von Lerchenau sung by Kristinn Sigmundsson - bass |
| Annina sung by Catherine Cook - mezzo-soprano |
| Marschallin, The sung by Soile Isokoski* / Martina Serafin* - soprano |
| Valzacchi sung by David Cangelosi - tenor |
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| Production - San Francisco Opera |
| First Noble Orphan sung by Virginia Pluth - mezzo-soprano |
| Second Noble Orphan sung by Dvora Djoraev - soprano |
| Third Noble Orphan sung by Heidi Waterman - mezzo-soprano |
| Mohammed sung by Rebecca Harvey - ? |
| The Marschallin's major-domo sung by Matthew O'Neill - tenor |
| The Marschallin's footmen sung by Colby Roberts - tenor |
| A Milliner sung by Carole Schaffer - soprano |
| An Animal Vendor sung by Richard Walker - tenor |
| A Notary sung by Jeremy Galyon - bass-baritone |
| Conductor - Donald Runnicles |
| Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Approximate Running Time: 4 hours/ Sung in German with English Supertitles |
| Cast |
| Director - Sandra Bernhard |
| Chorus Director - Ian Robertson |
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| The San Francisco production, with Thierry Bosquet's stage design offering a painstaking replica of the original 1911 production by the legendary Alfred Roller, seemed at best a semi-pointless endeavor when it was first done in 1993, as part of the company's Strauss Festival. Time has not increased its allure. / Review 2000 |
| I think these sets look chaming. |
| Italian Singer sung by Robert McPherson * - full lyric tenor |
| For over 65 years, the San Francisco Opera has presented "Der Rosenkavalier" with great reverence. From 1940 through the mid-1960s two of the most famous 20th century interpreters of the German repertoire, Lotte Lehmann and Elizabeth Schwarkopf, successively owned the role of the Marschallin, and few first rank Marschallins since have skipped performing the role in San Francisco. Were Strauss and Hoftmanstahl, the collaborators in its composition, to return to life, they would find their stage directions explicitly followed..Thierry Bosquet, based it on the Alfred Roller sets ..European capitals (such as Paris) may "animate" their Rosenkavaliers, but no Euro-heresy infects the Knight bearing the rose in San Francisco./ Opera Warhorses |
| Sat-June 9 (7:30 pm) J-K, Fri-15 (7:30 pm) G-I, OOT4, Tue-19 (7:30 pm) A-C,
Thr-21 (7:30 pm)†R-S, Sun-24 (1:30 pm) M-N, Wed-June27 (7:30 pm)D-E, SUMMER WEEKDAY, OOT SUMMER WEEKDAY; Sun-July 1 (1:30 pm)†W, SUMMER WEEKEND, RUNNICLES †=Second Cast |
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| The Marschallin's footmen sung by David Kekuewa - baritone |
| The Marschallin's footmen sung by Phillip Pickens - tenor |
| The Marschallin's footmen sung by Jere Torkelsen - ? |
| Leopold sung by Pete Opdyke - ??? |
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