Kawaler srebrnej róży by Strauss, pt 25 paź 2024, od (2024/2024), W reżyserii Georg Schmiedleitner, Dyrygent Daniel Montané, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz, Moguncja, Niemcy

“You have to be light. With a light heart and light hands. Hold and take, hold and let go.” The librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal puts these words into the Field Marshal's mouth. She knows that the affair with her young lover Octavian is over. So she suggests him to her cousin Baron Ochs as a messenger of love, as a knight of the rose. Ochs has his eye on Sophie, the daughter of an aspiring bourgeois family. His aim is to rejuvenate the old nobility with new money. What Ochs does not expect: Octavian falls in love with Sophie himself and thwarts his plans. It is a lively Rococo fantasy that Richard Strauss spins with Der Rosenkavalier , in the framework of which he lets a social study of old nobility, new money and class prejudice unfold. With his production of Strauss' Rosenkavalier, the internationally renowned director Georg Schmiedleitner will be appearing in Mainz for the first time. Known for his gripping approach to material and fine direction of characters, he penetrates into the deepest depths of the opera characters. In this way, he will look behind the facade of lavish sounds and Rococo gestures in Strauss' masterpiece.