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Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer[1]), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.[2] It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.[3] It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt,[4] with Ernst von Schuch conducting. Until the premiere, the working title was Ochs auf Lerchenau.[5] (The choice of the name Ochs is not accidental, as "Ochs" means "ox", which describes the Baron's manner.)

Der Rosenkavalier
Opera by Richard Strauss
Ernst Edler von Schuch conducting Der Rosenkavalier (1912), by Robert Sterl
LibrettistHugo von Hofmannsthal
LanguageGerman
Premiere
26 January 1911 (1911-01-26)
Richard Strauss in 1910

The opera has four main characters: the aristocratic Marschallin; her 17-year-old lover, Count Octavian Rofrano; her brutish cousin Baron Ochs; and Ochs's prospective fiancée, Sophie von Faninal, the daughter of a rich bourgeois. At the Marschallin's suggestion, Octavian acts as Ochs's Rosenkavalier by presenting a ceremonial silver rose to Sophie. But Octavian and Sophie fall in love on the spot, and soon devise a comic intrigue to extricate Sophie from her engagement, with help from the Marschallin, who then yields Octavian to Sophie.[6] Though a comic opera, the work incorporates weighty themes (particularly through the Marschallin's character arc), including infidelity, aging, sexual predation, and selflessness in love.

Der Rosenkavalier is notable for showcasing the female voice, as its protagonists (light lyric soprano Sophie, mezzo-soprano Octavian, and the mature dramatic soprano Marschallin) are written to be portrayed by women, who share several duets as well as a trio at the opera's emotional climax. Some singers have performed two or even all three of these roles over the course of their careers.

There are many recordings of the opera and it is regularly performed.[7]

Composition edit

Richard Strauss first met Hugo von Hofmannstal in 1899 in Berlin. Strauss was subsequently impressed by Hofmannsthal's play Elektra (1903), and adapted it into an opera that premiered on 25 January 1909. During that process, they agreed to collaborate on a new project that would be more comedic in tone. After Strauss rejected Hofmannstal's comedy Christinas Heimreise and the plays of Molière yielded little fruit, Hofmannsthal visited Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar.[8] Over the course of a few days in February 1909, Hofmannsthal and Kessler drafted a scenario inspired by a 1907 operetta that Kessler had seen in Paris: L'Ingénu libertin by writer Louis Artus and composer Claude Terrasse.[9]

Strauss approved the plot outline and work began in earnest. Act I's text was written in February-March 1909, with its music finished in May. Through the summer, Strauss composed Act II, collaborating with Hofmannstal to add more comedy and plot twists. By spring 1910, the first two acts were printed and Hofmannstal had finished writing the libretto. Strauss finished the final act on 26 September 1910.[8]

The first production was slated to be directed by the Dresden Opera's Georg Toller, who had staged the world premiere of Strauss's Elektra, but the creators had subsequently been impressed by the Vienna production of Elektra with sets designed by Alfred Roller (director of the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule) and lost faith in Toller. Strauss and Hofmannsthal commissioned Roller to design sets and costumes for Der Rosenkavalier and arranged for his designs to be published in an illustrated prompt book that all productions would be obligated to use.[8] They also controversially recruited Max Reinhardt to assist with rehearsals as a "shadow director" or replacement for Toller, although Toller remained the sole credited director.[10][11]

Performance history edit

Premiere edit

Der Rosenkavalier premiered on 26 January 1911 in Dresden conducted by Ernst von Schuch, who had conducted the premieres of Strauss's Feuersnot, Salome and Elektra. Soprano Margarethe Siems (Strauss's first Chrysothemis) sang the Marschallin, in a turn that represented the pinnacle of her career,[12] while Minnie Nast portrayed Sophie and Eva von der Osten sang the breeches role of Octavian.

From the start, Der Rosenkavalier was nothing short of a triumph: tickets to the premiere reportedly sold out almost immediately, resulting in a financial boom for the house. Though some critics took issue with Strauss's anachronistic use of waltz music, the public embraced the opera unconditionally. Rosenkavalier became Strauss's most popular opera during his lifetime and remains a staple of operatic repertoire today.[6][12]

International success edit

Within two months of its premiere, the work was translated into Italian and performed at La Scala. The Italian cast, led by conductor Tullio Serafin, included Lucrezia Bori as Octavian, Ines Maria Ferraris as Sophie, and Pavel Ludikar as Ochs. The opera's Austrian premiere was given by the Vienna Court Opera on the following 8 April, under Franz Schalk's baton,[13] with Lucie Weidt as Marschallin, Gertrude Förstel as Sophie substituting for Selma Kurz,[13] Marie Gutheil-Schoder as Octavian and Richard Mayr as Ochs.[14] The work reached the Teatro Costanzi in Rome seven months later on 14 November with Egisto Tango conducting Hariclea Darclée as the Marschallin and Conchita Supervía as Octavian.[14]

The United Kingdom premiere of Der Rosenkavalier occurred at the Royal Opera House in London on 29 January 1913. Thomas Beecham conducted the performance and the cast included Margarethe Siems as the Marschallin and Caroline Hatchard as Sophie. The United States premiere took place at the Metropolitan Opera on the following 9 December in a production conducted by Alfred Hertz.[15] The cast included Frieda Hempel as the Marschallin, Margarethe Arndt-Ober as Octavian, and Anna Case as Sophie. A number of Italian theatres produced the work for the first time in the 1920s, including the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi (1921), Teatro Regio di Torino (1923), Teatro di San Carlo (1925), and the Teatro Carlo Felice (1926).[14]

Der Rosenkavalier reached Monaco on 21 March 1926 when it was performed by the Opéra de Monte-Carlo at the Salle Garnier in a French translation. The performance starred Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi as the Marschallin and Vanni Marcoux as Faninal. 1926 also saw the premiere of a film of the opera. The French premiere of the opera itself came in 1927 at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 11 February 1927 with conductor Philippe Gaubert. The cast included Germaine Lubin as Octavian. Brussels heard the work for the first time at La Monnaie on 15 December 1927 with Clara Clairbert as Sophie.[14]

The Salzburg Festival mounted Der Rosenkavalier for the first time on 12 August 1929 in a production conducted by Clemens Krauss. The cast included Lotte Lehmann as the Marschallin and Marta Fuchs as Annina. Other first productions at notable houses, opera festivals, and music ensembles include: Teatro Massimo (5 March 1932), Philadelphia Orchestra (30 November 1934), San Francisco Opera (16 October 1940), Philadelphia Opera Company (2 December 1941), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2 May 1942), La Fenice (20 April 1943), Festival dei Due Mondi (19 June 1964), Teatro Comunale di Bologna (19 November 1965), Lyric Opera of Chicago (25 September 1970), and the New York City Opera (19 November 1973), among many others.[14] It was first presented in Australia as a radio broadcast on 7 January 1936, featuring Florence Austral,[16] but the first Australian stage production was not until 1972, by the Australian Opera in Melbourne, conducted by Sir Edward Downes.[17] The first New Zealand performance was at the International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2002.[18]

Roles edit

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast, 26 January 1911
Conductor: Ernst von Schuch
The Marschallin, Princess Marie Thérèse von Werdenberg dramatic coloratura soprano Margarethe Siems
Octavian, Count Rofrano, her young lover mezzo-soprano (en travesti) Eva von der Osten
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, the Marschallin's cousin bass Karl Perron
Sophie von Faninal soprano Minnie Nast
Herr von Faninal, Sophie's rich parvenu father baritone Karl Scheidemantel
Marianne, Sophie's duenna soprano Riza Eibenschütz
Valzacchi, an intriguer tenor Hans Rüdiger
Annina, his niece and partner contralto Erna Freund
A notary bass Ludwig Ermold
An Italian singer tenor Fritz Soot
Three noble orphans soprano, mezzo-
soprano, contralto
Marie Keldorfer, Gertrude Sachse, Paula Seiring
A milliner soprano Elisa Stünzner
A vendor of pets tenor Josef Pauli
Faninal's Major-Domo tenor Fritz Soot
A police inspector bass Julius Puttlitz
The Marschallin's Major-Domo tenor Anton Erl
An innkeeper tenor Josef Pauli
Four lackeys tenors, basses Josef Pauli, Wilhelm Quidde, Rudolf Schmalnauer, Robert Büssel
Four waiters tenor, basses Wilhelm Quidde, Rudolf Schmalnauer, Robert Büssel, Franz Nebuschka
Mohammed, the Marschallin's black page silent
A flutist, a cook, a hairdresser and his assistant,
a scholar, a noble widow
all silent
Servants, hired deceivers, children, constables

Synopsis edit

Time: 1740s, in the first years of the reign of Empress Maria Theresa
Place: Vienna

Act 1 edit

 
Hogarth's The Countess's Morning Levee (ca. 1744), the inspiration for the Marschallin's morning reception[citation needed]

The Marschallin's bedroom

The opera's Einleitung (Introduction) depicts a night of lovemaking between Princess Marie Therese von Werdenberg (known as the Marschallin, the title given to a Field Marshal's wife) and her much younger lover, Count Octavian Rofrano. The curtain rises to show them lounging in bed together just before daybreak ("Wie du warst! Wie du bist"). Loud voices are soon heard outside, and the Marschallin has Octavian hide, believing that her husband has returned early from a hunting trip. Octavian emerges in a skirt and bonnet ("Befehl'n fürstli' Gnad'n, i bin halt noch nit recht...") and tries to sneak away, but the Marschallin's country cousin, Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, bursts in through the same door.

The Baron is newly engaged to Sophie Faninal ("Selbstverständlich empfängt mich Ihro Gnaden"), a wealthy merchant's daughter. This does not keep him from making lewd comments at the disguised Octavian. Ochs has come to ask two favors: he wants to borrow his cousin's notary to write the marriage contract, and he wants her to recommend a young nobleman to serve as his Rosenkavalier ("Knight of the Rose"), who will deliver the traditional silver engagement rose to Sophie. The Marschallin instructs "Mariandel" to fetch Octavian's miniature portrait and present it to the Baron. Ochs readily accepts Octavian as his Rosenkavalier, deciding that the "maid" must be that young count's "bastard sister", then insists that the Marschallin allow "Mariandel" to come and work for his new bride. She refuses as politely as possible and finally dismisses the "maid".

A busy reception scene ensues as the room fills with vendors and supplicants to the Marschallin ("Drei arme adelige Waisen"), who ignores the former and aids the latter. A tenor sent by the Portuguese ambassador serenades her ("Di rigori armato") while Ochs sits down with the notary. Two Italian intriguers, Valzacchi and Annina, present scandal sheets for sale, which the Marschallin coldly declines. Ochs tries to stipulate a gift from Sophie's family consisting of all their properties, free from mortgages, and quickly loses patience with the notary's attempts to explain that this is illegal. Amid all the activity, the Marschallin remarks to her hairdresser: "My dear Hippolyte, today you have made me look like an old woman" ("Mein lieber Hippolyte"). This so disturbs her that she orders the room to be emptied. As the people file out, Valzacchi and Annina offer Ochs their spying services. He asks whether they know anything about "Mariandel"; they lie and claim to know all about her.

Now alone, the Marschallin ponders her waning youth and the unhappiness of her forced marriage, perceiving the same in store for Sophie ("Da geht er hin..."). Octavian returns, dressed again in men's clothes ("Ach, du bist wieder da"). When he sees that the Marschallin is out of sorts, he assumes it is from her earlier fear that he might have been discovered. But she is still thinking of the passage of time (a clock is heard chiming 13 times) and tells him that, very soon, he will leave her for someone younger and prettier. Octavian reacts with frustration, and the Marschallin turns him away. Too late, she realizes that she has neglected to kiss him goodbye. With nothing else to be done, she summons her young page, Mohammed, to take the silver rose to Octavian, then stares pensively into her hand mirror (or similar) as the curtain falls.

 
1927 portrait of Richard Mayr as Ochs by Anton Faistauer. Mayr sang this role 149 times in Vienna, Salzburg and London.

Act 2 edit

The von Faninals' palace

The next day, Herr von Faninal exultantly and Sophie nervously await the Rosenkavalier's arrival ("Ein ernster Tag, ein grosser Tag!"). Following tradition, Faninal departs before the Knight appears, saying that he will return with the bridegroom. Sophie prays to keep her sense of humility through all the rapid changes happening in her life, but she is repeatedly interrupted by her duenna, Marianne, who reports from the window on the Rosenkavalier's elaborate entourage ("In dieser feierlichen Stunde der Prüfung"). Octavian arrives with great pomp, dressed all in silver, and presents the silver rose to Sophie ("Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren..."). She smells it, saying it is as sweet as a greeting from Heaven itself. Instantly smitten, Octavian joins her avowal that they will remember this moment until death.

They settle into a chaperoned conversation. Sophie reveals that she already knows Octavian's full name – Octavian Maria Ehrenreich Bonaventura Fernand Hyacinth Rofrano – from studying the catalogue of Austrian nobility to prepare for her marriage. She even knows his nickname, Quinquin, which only intimate friends (including the Marschallin) call him. She adds that she likes him very much. Ochs then enters with Faninal ("Jetzt aber kommt mein Herr Zukünftiger") and wastes no time revealing his character to the bride, loudly examining Sophie's body and comparing her to "an unbroken filly" when she protests. Once he leaves the room with Faninal to finalize the marriage contract, Sophie and Octavian quickly agree that she will not marry the Baron under any circumstances.

The young lovers' rapturous duet ("Mit Ihren Augen voll Tränen") is soon interrupted by Valzacchi and Annina, who surprise them and call for Ochs. Octavian challenges the Baron to a duel. Ochs runs forward, scratches his arm on the point of Octavian's drawn sword, and screams so that Faninal and the rest of the household come rushing in. Sophie begs her father to call off the wedding, to no avail: Octavian is asked to leave, and Sophie is sent to her room. Ochs is left on the divan, his arm in a sling, nursing a bottle of Hippocras and fantasies of revenge against Octavian. But Annina brings him something that raises his spirits much more quickly: a letter signed by "Mariandel", asking for a tryst. At this, Ochs forgets his sling and waltzes across the stage, ignoring Annina's hints for a tip – and missing her quiet promise to get even ("Da lieg' ich!").

Act 3 edit

 
Delia Reinhardt as Octavian c. 1923

A private room in a shabby inn

Fed up with the Baron, Valzacchi and Annina help Octavian prepare a trap the next evening. Elaborate preparations are seen in pantomime before Ochs arrives with "Mariandel", ready for a cozy dinner at a table set for two.

Ochs is disturbed by "Mariandel's" uncanny resemblance to his nemesis Octavian, and keeps catching glimpses of strange apparitions in the room. A disguised Annina bursts in, calling Ochs her husband and the father of her (numerous) children, who crowd around him, crying, "Papa! Papa!" The Baron calls for the police; to his unpleasant surprise, the vice squad treats him with suspicion, and Valzacchi claims not to know him. The police inspector asks about the "woman" accompanying him, and Ochs lies that "she" is his fiancée, Sophie Faninal – just in time for Herr von Faninal to arrive, demanding to know why Ochs's messenger (presumably Valzacchi) has summoned him to this disreputable place. When asked if "Mariandel" is his daughter, Faninal retorts in a rage that his daughter is outside. Sophie enters, confirming this assertion, and her apoplectic father staggers out, leaning on her shoulder.

"Mariandel" now offers to make a statement in private, and retires behind a screen with the Police Inspector. Soon Ochs sees articles of women's clothing coming into view. He rages against the vice squad, but is interrupted by the Marschallin's arrival. The Police Inspector greets her before clearing the room, and she explains to the Baron that he has been fooled. Sophie returns and tells Ochs that their engagement is off; Octavian emerges, and the Marschallin confirms that Octavian, Valzacchi, Annina, and others set up a "masquerade" to break his engagement. Ochs, glancing back and forth between Octavian and the Marschallin, now grasps the nature of their relationship and implies that he may tell the Marschallin's husband of it, but he is cowed by the Marschallin's force of will (if not the sight of Octavian's sword) and ingloriously departs, pursued by children and bill collectors.

 
Farewell of Marschallin in act 3, with Mojca Erdmann, Sophie Koch and Krassimira Stoyanova (from left to right), Salzburg Festival 2014

The Marschallin, Sophie, and Octavian are left alone, and Octavian does not know what to do. The Marschallin introduces herself to Sophie, recognizing that the day she feared has come (Trio: "Marie Theres'!" / "Hab' mir's gelobt"), and releases Octavian to be with the woman he loves. She then withdraws, with a promise to Sophie that she will offer Faninal a face-saving ride home in her carriage. As soon as she is gone, Sophie and Octavian run to each other. Faninal and the Marschallin return to find them locked in an embrace. With a last, bittersweet look toward her lost lover, the Marschallin heads for the carriage with Faninal. Sophie and Octavian follow after another brief but ecstatic love duet ("Ist ein Traum" / "Spür' nur dich"). The opera ends with Mohammed trotting in to retrieve Sophie's dropped handkerchief, then racing out again after the others.

Instrumentation edit

Strauss's score is written for the following:[19]

Rosenkavalier Suite edit

In 1945 Strauss allowed an orchestral Rosenkavalier Suite to be published, but apparently was not involved in creating it.[21] It is likely that conductor Artur Rodziński arranged it, as he conducted the suite's first performance, in October 1944 by the New York Philharmonic.[22][23]

The suite begins with the opera's orchestral prelude, depicting the Marschallin's and Octavian's night of passion (vividly portrayed by whooping horns). Next comes the appearance of Octavian as the "Rosenkavalier", depicted in tender music; the sight of him looking so young makes the Marschallin realise that he will soon leave her for a younger woman. There follows the duet between Octavian and Sophie (oboe and horn) – in which their love for each other becomes ever more obvious, but this is abruptly interrupted by the discordant music associated with Ochs's clumsy arrival. Next the violins tentatively introduce the first waltz, followed by another given out by the solo violin, before the whole orchestra settles into waltz mode. A general pause and a violin solo leads into the nostalgic music where the Marschallin sadly realises she has lost Octavian. Then comes its ecstatic climax. The work closes with a singularly robust waltz, depicting Ochs at his most pompous, and a boisterous coda newly composed for the suite.[citation needed]

Language edit

Hofmannsthal's libretto uses various forms of the German language. Members of the nobility speak in a refined and courteous mode, appropriate to the opera's 1740s setting. In more intimate circles they use a more familiar style of speech (du). For instance, the conversations between Octavian and the Marschallin in the first act use the familiar "you" but switch back and forth between more formal speech (Sie) and the familiar du,[6] as well as the intermediate (and now obsolete) Er.[24]

Some productions include a glossary in the programme to help clarify the contextual meaning of the language used, which is mostly lost in translation. Ochs makes clumsy, mannered attempts at refined or flamboyant language, using non-German words and phrases such as corpo di Bacco! ("by Bacchus's body!" in Italian), some of which he mispronounces. The language used by Octavian as Mariandel, and by other non-noble characters, is an Austrian dialect whose connotations are difficult for non-native speakers to grasp. The German used by the Italians, Valzacchi and Annina, is also very broken and marked by Italian accentuations.[6] Strauss and Hofmannsthal used dialects to depict the social status of a role in a similar way in their next opera, Ariadne auf Naxos.

In English translations, these dialects have been accounted for with varying degrees of rigor; the Chandos Highlights version, for example, uses only standard British English.[6]

Grainger's Ramble edit

Percy Grainger wrote an elaborate and complex piano transcription of a theme from Der Rosenkavalier. The Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Der Rosenkavalier is one of his more complex piano transcriptions, with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns.[citation needed]

Recordings edit

Artur Rodzinski recorded the suite with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London on Westminster Hi-Fi, XWN 18680 in 1958.

References edit

Notes

  1. ^ Strauss 1912.
  2. ^ Kennedy 2001, p. 892; Murray 1992, p. 43. Hofmannsthal's friend Count Harry Kessler helped in creating the plot, a conclusion based on entries in Kessler's diaries (Kennedy 1999, p. 163). Kennedy 2001, p. 892, mentions Kessler's role but only credits Hofmannsthal for the libretto.
  3. ^ Murray 1992, pp. 43–44.
  4. ^ Kennedy 2001, p. 892. The producer in Dresden was considered inadequate and Strauss sent Reinhardt to supervise and carry out his ideas, although Reinhardt did not receive any credit in the programme.
  5. ^ May, Thomas (2007). . San Francisco Opera. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009.
  6. ^ a b c d e Jefferson 1985, p. [page needed]
  7. ^ . Operabase. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. ^ a b c Wilhelm, Kurt (1989). Richard Strauss: An Intimate Portrait. Translated by Mary Whittall. Thames & Hudson. p. 120-124.
  9. ^ Reynolds, Michael (2016). Creating Der Rosenkavalier: From Chevalier to Cavalier. Boydell Press.
  10. ^ Murray 1992.
  11. ^ Weßler, Kai (2022-03-24). "Wer war der Regisseur des »Rosenkavalier«?". Semperoper Dresden. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  12. ^ a b Murray 1992, p. 44
  13. ^ a b "Die Premiere des Rosenkavalier in der Hofoper", Neue Freie Presse, 9 April 1911, p. 16 (in German)
  14. ^ a b c d e Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performance History of Der Rosenkavalier". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  15. ^ Donal Henahan, Met's New Rosenkavalier, The New York Times, 24 January 1969. (Retrieved 24 September 2010)
  16. ^ "Amusements – Der Rosenkavalier", The Sydney Morning Herald (7 January 1936)
  17. ^ "Sir Edward Downes: Conductor celebrated as one of the finest Verdi interpreters of his generation", Elizabeth Forbes, The Independent (London), 16 July 2009
  18. ^ The New Zealand Herald, 2 Mar 2002, Brian Rudman[full citation needed]
  19. ^ Work details at Boosey & Hawkes; work details at Schott Music
  20. ^ Michael Kennedy (2011) [1980]. "Comedy for Music – Act Three". Der Rosenkavalier Study Guide. London: Overture. p. 28, note 9. ISBN 9780714544953.
  21. ^ Del Mar 2000, p. 19.
  22. ^ "About the Piece: Rosenkavalier Suite 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, programme note on laphil.com
  23. ^ Don Anderson, Programme Notes: "R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier" 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, 2014, on Toronto Symphony Orchestra's website.
  24. ^ For example, "Beklagt Er sich über das, Qinquin?" in "Wie Du warst!" on page 10 of the piano-vocal score referred to below.

Sources

  • Del Mar, Norman (2000). Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9318-8.
  • Jefferson, Alan (1985). Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-27811-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Kennedy, Michael (1999). Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521581738.
  • Kennedy, Michael (2001). "Richard Strauss". In Amanda Holden (ed.). The New Penguin Opera Guide. New York and London: Penguin Books. pp. 886–905. ISBN 0-14-029312-4.
  • Murray, David (1992). "Rosenkavalier, Der". In Stanley Sadie (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Vol. 4. London: Macmillan. pp. 43–47. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.o004998. ISBN 0-333-73432-7.
  • Strauss, Richard (1912). Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer), Comedy for Music in three Acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, English version by Alfred Kalisch (vocal score in English and German). London: Boosey & Hawkes. OCLC 42239315. See also file #117568 at IMSLP.

Further reading edit

  • Boyden, Matthew (1999). Richard Strauss. Boston: Northeastern University. ISBN 1-55553-418-X
  • Reynolds, Michael. Creating 'Der Rosenkavalier': From Chevalier to Cavalier. The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-78327-049-1

External links edit

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For other uses see Der Rosenkavalier disambiguation Der Rosenkavalier The Knight of the Rose or The Rose Bearer 1 Op 59 is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal 2 It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai s novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Moliere s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac 3 It was first performed at the Konigliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt 4 with Ernst von Schuch conducting Until the premiere the working title was Ochs auf Lerchenau 5 The choice of the name Ochs is not accidental as Ochs means ox which describes the Baron s manner Der RosenkavalierOpera by Richard StraussErnst Edler von Schuch conducting Der Rosenkavalier 1912 by Robert SterlLibrettistHugo von HofmannsthalLanguageGermanPremiere26 January 1911 1911 01 26 Konigliches Opernhaus DresdenRichard Strauss in 1910The opera has four main characters the aristocratic Marschallin her 17 year old lover Count Octavian Rofrano her brutish cousin Baron Ochs and Ochs s prospective fiancee Sophie von Faninal the daughter of a rich bourgeois At the Marschallin s suggestion Octavian acts as Ochs s Rosenkavalier by presenting a ceremonial silver rose to Sophie But Octavian and Sophie fall in love on the spot and soon devise a comic intrigue to extricate Sophie from her engagement with help from the Marschallin who then yields Octavian to Sophie 6 Though a comic opera the work incorporates weighty themes particularly through the Marschallin s character arc including infidelity aging sexual predation and selflessness in love Der Rosenkavalier is notable for showcasing the female voice as its protagonists light lyric soprano Sophie mezzo soprano Octavian and the mature dramatic soprano Marschallin are written to be portrayed by women who share several duets as well as a trio at the opera s emotional climax Some singers have performed two or even all three of these roles over the course of their careers There are many recordings of the opera and it is regularly performed 7 Contents 1 Composition 2 Performance history 2 1 Premiere 2 2 International success 3 Roles 4 Synopsis 4 1 Act 1 4 2 Act 2 4 3 Act 3 5 Instrumentation 6 Rosenkavalier Suite 7 Language 8 Grainger s Ramble 9 Recordings 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksComposition editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it March 2023 Richard Strauss first met Hugo von Hofmannstal in 1899 in Berlin Strauss was subsequently impressed by Hofmannsthal s play Elektra 1903 and adapted it into an opera that premiered on 25 January 1909 During that process they agreed to collaborate on a new project that would be more comedic in tone After Strauss rejected Hofmannstal s comedy Christinas Heimreise and the plays of Moliere yielded little fruit Hofmannsthal visited Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar 8 Over the course of a few days in February 1909 Hofmannsthal and Kessler drafted a scenario inspired by a 1907 operetta that Kessler had seen in Paris L Ingenu libertin by writer Louis Artus and composer Claude Terrasse 9 Strauss approved the plot outline and work began in earnest Act I s text was written in February March 1909 with its music finished in May Through the summer Strauss composed Act II collaborating with Hofmannstal to add more comedy and plot twists By spring 1910 the first two acts were printed and Hofmannstal had finished writing the libretto Strauss finished the final act on 26 September 1910 8 The first production was slated to be directed by the Dresden Opera s Georg Toller who had staged the world premiere of Strauss s Elektra but the creators had subsequently been impressed by the Vienna production of Elektra with sets designed by Alfred Roller director of the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule and lost faith in Toller Strauss and Hofmannsthal commissioned Roller to design sets and costumes for Der Rosenkavalier and arranged for his designs to be published in an illustrated prompt book that all productions would be obligated to use 8 They also controversially recruited Max Reinhardt to assist with rehearsals as a shadow director or replacement for Toller although Toller remained the sole credited director 10 11 Performance history editPremiere edit Der Rosenkavalier premiered on 26 January 1911 in Dresden conducted by Ernst von Schuch who had conducted the premieres of Strauss s Feuersnot Salome and Elektra Soprano Margarethe Siems Strauss s first Chrysothemis sang the Marschallin in a turn that represented the pinnacle of her career 12 while Minnie Nast portrayed Sophie and Eva von der Osten sang the breeches role of Octavian From the start Der Rosenkavalier was nothing short of a triumph tickets to the premiere reportedly sold out almost immediately resulting in a financial boom for the house Though some critics took issue with Strauss s anachronistic use of waltz music the public embraced the opera unconditionally Rosenkavalier became Strauss s most popular opera during his lifetime and remains a staple of operatic repertoire today 6 12 International success edit Within two months of its premiere the work was translated into Italian and performed at La Scala The Italian cast led by conductor Tullio Serafin included Lucrezia Bori as Octavian Ines Maria Ferraris as Sophie and Pavel Ludikar as Ochs The opera s Austrian premiere was given by the Vienna Court Opera on the following 8 April under Franz Schalk s baton 13 with Lucie Weidt as Marschallin Gertrude Forstel as Sophie substituting for Selma Kurz 13 Marie Gutheil Schoder as Octavian and Richard Mayr as Ochs 14 The work reached the Teatro Costanzi in Rome seven months later on 14 November with Egisto Tango conducting Hariclea Darclee as the Marschallin and Conchita Supervia as Octavian 14 The United Kingdom premiere of Der Rosenkavalier occurred at the Royal Opera House in London on 29 January 1913 Thomas Beecham conducted the performance and the cast included Margarethe Siems as the Marschallin and Caroline Hatchard as Sophie The United States premiere took place at the Metropolitan Opera on the following 9 December in a production conducted by Alfred Hertz 15 The cast included Frieda Hempel as the Marschallin Margarethe Arndt Ober as Octavian and Anna Case as Sophie A number of Italian theatres produced the work for the first time in the 1920s including the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi 1921 Teatro Regio di Torino 1923 Teatro di San Carlo 1925 and the Teatro Carlo Felice 1926 14 Der Rosenkavalier reached Monaco on 21 March 1926 when it was performed by the Opera de Monte Carlo at the Salle Garnier in a French translation The performance starred Gabrielle Ritter Ciampi as the Marschallin and Vanni Marcoux as Faninal 1926 also saw the premiere of a film of the opera The French premiere of the opera itself came in 1927 at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 11 February 1927 with conductor Philippe Gaubert The cast included Germaine Lubin as Octavian Brussels heard the work for the first time at La Monnaie on 15 December 1927 with Clara Clairbert as Sophie 14 The Salzburg Festival mounted Der Rosenkavalier for the first time on 12 August 1929 in a production conducted by Clemens Krauss The cast included Lotte Lehmann as the Marschallin and Marta Fuchs as Annina Other first productions at notable houses opera festivals and music ensembles include Teatro Massimo 5 March 1932 Philadelphia Orchestra 30 November 1934 San Francisco Opera 16 October 1940 Philadelphia Opera Company 2 December 1941 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2 May 1942 La Fenice 20 April 1943 Festival dei Due Mondi 19 June 1964 Teatro Comunale di Bologna 19 November 1965 Lyric Opera of Chicago 25 September 1970 and the New York City Opera 19 November 1973 among many others 14 It was first presented in Australia as a radio broadcast on 7 January 1936 featuring Florence Austral 16 but the first Australian stage production was not until 1972 by the Australian Opera in Melbourne conducted by Sir Edward Downes 17 The first New Zealand performance was at the International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2002 18 Roles editRoles voice types premiere cast Role Voice type Premiere cast 26 January 1911Conductor Ernst von SchuchThe Marschallin Princess Marie Therese von Werdenberg dramatic coloratura soprano Margarethe SiemsOctavian Count Rofrano her young lover mezzo soprano en travesti Eva von der OstenBaron Ochs auf Lerchenau the Marschallin s cousin bass Karl PerronSophie von Faninal soprano Minnie NastHerr von Faninal Sophie s rich parvenu father baritone Karl ScheidemantelMarianne Sophie s duenna soprano Riza EibenschutzValzacchi an intriguer tenor Hans RudigerAnnina his niece and partner contralto Erna FreundA notary bass Ludwig ErmoldAn Italian singer tenor Fritz SootThree noble orphans soprano mezzo soprano contralto Marie Keldorfer Gertrude Sachse Paula SeiringA milliner soprano Elisa StunznerA vendor of pets tenor Josef PauliFaninal s Major Domo tenor Fritz SootA police inspector bass Julius PuttlitzThe Marschallin s Major Domo tenor Anton ErlAn innkeeper tenor Josef PauliFour lackeys tenors basses Josef Pauli Wilhelm Quidde Rudolf Schmalnauer Robert BusselFour waiters tenor basses Wilhelm Quidde Rudolf Schmalnauer Robert Bussel Franz NebuschkaMohammed the Marschallin s black page silentA flutist a cook a hairdresser and his assistant a scholar a noble widow all silentServants hired deceivers children constablesSynopsis editTime 1740s in the first years of the reign of Empress Maria Theresa Place ViennaAct 1 edit nbsp Hogarth s The Countess s Morning Levee ca 1744 the inspiration for the Marschallin s morning reception citation needed The Marschallin s bedroomThe opera s Einleitung Introduction depicts a night of lovemaking between Princess Marie Therese von Werdenberg known as the Marschallin the title given to a Field Marshal s wife and her much younger lover Count Octavian Rofrano The curtain rises to show them lounging in bed together just before daybreak Wie du warst Wie du bist Loud voices are soon heard outside and the Marschallin has Octavian hide believing that her husband has returned early from a hunting trip Octavian emerges in a skirt and bonnet Befehl n furstli Gnad n i bin halt noch nit recht and tries to sneak away but the Marschallin s country cousin Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau bursts in through the same door The Baron is newly engaged to Sophie Faninal Selbstverstandlich empfangt mich Ihro Gnaden a wealthy merchant s daughter This does not keep him from making lewd comments at the disguised Octavian Ochs has come to ask two favors he wants to borrow his cousin s notary to write the marriage contract and he wants her to recommend a young nobleman to serve as his Rosenkavalier Knight of the Rose who will deliver the traditional silver engagement rose to Sophie The Marschallin instructs Mariandel to fetch Octavian s miniature portrait and present it to the Baron Ochs readily accepts Octavian as his Rosenkavalier deciding that the maid must be that young count s bastard sister then insists that the Marschallin allow Mariandel to come and work for his new bride She refuses as politely as possible and finally dismisses the maid A busy reception scene ensues as the room fills with vendors and supplicants to the Marschallin Drei arme adelige Waisen who ignores the former and aids the latter A tenor sent by the Portuguese ambassador serenades her Di rigori armato while Ochs sits down with the notary Two Italian intriguers Valzacchi and Annina present scandal sheets for sale which the Marschallin coldly declines Ochs tries to stipulate a gift from Sophie s family consisting of all their properties free from mortgages and quickly loses patience with the notary s attempts to explain that this is illegal Amid all the activity the Marschallin remarks to her hairdresser My dear Hippolyte today you have made me look like an old woman Mein lieber Hippolyte This so disturbs her that she orders the room to be emptied As the people file out Valzacchi and Annina offer Ochs their spying services He asks whether they know anything about Mariandel they lie and claim to know all about her Now alone the Marschallin ponders her waning youth and the unhappiness of her forced marriage perceiving the same in store for Sophie Da geht er hin Octavian returns dressed again in men s clothes Ach du bist wieder da When he sees that the Marschallin is out of sorts he assumes it is from her earlier fear that he might have been discovered But she is still thinking of the passage of time a clock is heard chiming 13 times and tells him that very soon he will leave her for someone younger and prettier Octavian reacts with frustration and the Marschallin turns him away Too late she realizes that she has neglected to kiss him goodbye With nothing else to be done she summons her young page Mohammed to take the silver rose to Octavian then stares pensively into her hand mirror or similar as the curtain falls nbsp 1927 portrait of Richard Mayr as Ochs by Anton Faistauer Mayr sang this role 149 times in Vienna Salzburg and London Act 2 edit The von Faninals palaceThe next day Herr von Faninal exultantly and Sophie nervously await the Rosenkavalier s arrival Ein ernster Tag ein grosser Tag Following tradition Faninal departs before the Knight appears saying that he will return with the bridegroom Sophie prays to keep her sense of humility through all the rapid changes happening in her life but she is repeatedly interrupted by her duenna Marianne who reports from the window on the Rosenkavalier s elaborate entourage In dieser feierlichen Stunde der Prufung Octavian arrives with great pomp dressed all in silver and presents the silver rose to Sophie Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren She smells it saying it is as sweet as a greeting from Heaven itself Instantly smitten Octavian joins her avowal that they will remember this moment until death They settle into a chaperoned conversation Sophie reveals that she already knows Octavian s full name Octavian Maria Ehrenreich Bonaventura Fernand Hyacinth Rofrano from studying the catalogue of Austrian nobility to prepare for her marriage She even knows his nickname Quinquin which only intimate friends including the Marschallin call him She adds that she likes him very much Ochs then enters with Faninal Jetzt aber kommt mein Herr Zukunftiger and wastes no time revealing his character to the bride loudly examining Sophie s body and comparing her to an unbroken filly when she protests Once he leaves the room with Faninal to finalize the marriage contract Sophie and Octavian quickly agree that she will not marry the Baron under any circumstances The young lovers rapturous duet Mit Ihren Augen voll Tranen is soon interrupted by Valzacchi and Annina who surprise them and call for Ochs Octavian challenges the Baron to a duel Ochs runs forward scratches his arm on the point of Octavian s drawn sword and screams so that Faninal and the rest of the household come rushing in Sophie begs her father to call off the wedding to no avail Octavian is asked to leave and Sophie is sent to her room Ochs is left on the divan his arm in a sling nursing a bottle of Hippocras and fantasies of revenge against Octavian But Annina brings him something that raises his spirits much more quickly a letter signed by Mariandel asking for a tryst At this Ochs forgets his sling and waltzes across the stage ignoring Annina s hints for a tip and missing her quiet promise to get even Da lieg ich Act 3 edit nbsp Delia Reinhardt as Octavian c 1923A private room in a shabby innFed up with the Baron Valzacchi and Annina help Octavian prepare a trap the next evening Elaborate preparations are seen in pantomime before Ochs arrives with Mariandel ready for a cozy dinner at a table set for two Ochs is disturbed by Mariandel s uncanny resemblance to his nemesis Octavian and keeps catching glimpses of strange apparitions in the room A disguised Annina bursts in calling Ochs her husband and the father of her numerous children who crowd around him crying Papa Papa The Baron calls for the police to his unpleasant surprise the vice squad treats him with suspicion and Valzacchi claims not to know him The police inspector asks about the woman accompanying him and Ochs lies that she is his fiancee Sophie Faninal just in time for Herr von Faninal to arrive demanding to know why Ochs s messenger presumably Valzacchi has summoned him to this disreputable place When asked if Mariandel is his daughter Faninal retorts in a rage that his daughter is outside Sophie enters confirming this assertion and her apoplectic father staggers out leaning on her shoulder Mariandel now offers to make a statement in private and retires behind a screen with the Police Inspector Soon Ochs sees articles of women s clothing coming into view He rages against the vice squad but is interrupted by the Marschallin s arrival The Police Inspector greets her before clearing the room and she explains to the Baron that he has been fooled Sophie returns and tells Ochs that their engagement is off Octavian emerges and the Marschallin confirms that Octavian Valzacchi Annina and others set up a masquerade to break his engagement Ochs glancing back and forth between Octavian and the Marschallin now grasps the nature of their relationship and implies that he may tell the Marschallin s husband of it but he is cowed by the Marschallin s force of will if not the sight of Octavian s sword and ingloriously departs pursued by children and bill collectors nbsp Farewell of Marschallin in act 3 with Mojca Erdmann Sophie Koch and Krassimira Stoyanova from left to right Salzburg Festival 2014The Marschallin Sophie and Octavian are left alone and Octavian does not know what to do The Marschallin introduces herself to Sophie recognizing that the day she feared has come Trio Marie Theres Hab mir s gelobt and releases Octavian to be with the woman he loves She then withdraws with a promise to Sophie that she will offer Faninal a face saving ride home in her carriage As soon as she is gone Sophie and Octavian run to each other Faninal and the Marschallin return to find them locked in an embrace With a last bittersweet look toward her lost lover the Marschallin heads for the carriage with Faninal Sophie and Octavian follow after another brief but ecstatic love duet Ist ein Traum Spur nur dich The opera ends with Mohammed trotting in to retrieve Sophie s dropped handkerchief then racing out again after the others Instrumentation editStrauss s score is written for the following 19 Woodwind 3 flutes III doubling on piccolo 2 oboes English horn also doubling on 3rd oboe 3 clarinets III also clarinet in D amp E flat basset horn doubles bass clarinet in B flat and A 3 bassoons III also contrabassoon Brass 4 French horns 3 trumpets 3 trombones bass tuba Percussion timpani bass drum and cymbals triangle tambourine glockenspiel ratchet tenor drum snare drum jingle bells castanets Celesta 2 harps Strings 16 violins I 16 violins II 12 violas 10 cellos 8 double basses Off stage 2 flutes oboe 3 clarinets 2 bassoons 2 French horns trumpet drum harmonium piano strings 20 Rosenkavalier Suite editIn 1945 Strauss allowed an orchestral Rosenkavalier Suite to be published but apparently was not involved in creating it 21 It is likely that conductor Artur Rodzinski arranged it as he conducted the suite s first performance in October 1944 by the New York Philharmonic 22 23 The suite begins with the opera s orchestral prelude depicting the Marschallin s and Octavian s night of passion vividly portrayed by whooping horns Next comes the appearance of Octavian as the Rosenkavalier depicted in tender music the sight of him looking so young makes the Marschallin realise that he will soon leave her for a younger woman There follows the duet between Octavian and Sophie oboe and horn in which their love for each other becomes ever more obvious but this is abruptly interrupted by the discordant music associated with Ochs s clumsy arrival Next the violins tentatively introduce the first waltz followed by another given out by the solo violin before the whole orchestra settles into waltz mode A general pause and a violin solo leads into the nostalgic music where the Marschallin sadly realises she has lost Octavian Then comes its ecstatic climax The work closes with a singularly robust waltz depicting Ochs at his most pompous and a boisterous coda newly composed for the suite citation needed Language editHofmannsthal s libretto uses various forms of the German language Members of the nobility speak in a refined and courteous mode appropriate to the opera s 1740s setting In more intimate circles they use a more familiar style of speech du For instance the conversations between Octavian and the Marschallin in the first act use the familiar you but switch back and forth between more formal speech Sie and the familiar du 6 as well as the intermediate and now obsolete Er 24 Some productions include a glossary in the programme to help clarify the contextual meaning of the language used which is mostly lost in translation Ochs makes clumsy mannered attempts at refined or flamboyant language using non German words and phrases such as corpo di Bacco by Bacchus s body in Italian some of which he mispronounces The language used by Octavian as Mariandel and by other non noble characters is an Austrian dialect whose connotations are difficult for non native speakers to grasp The German used by the Italians Valzacchi and Annina is also very broken and marked by Italian accentuations 6 Strauss and Hofmannsthal used dialects to depict the social status of a role in a similar way in their next opera Ariadne auf Naxos In English translations these dialects have been accounted for with varying degrees of rigor the Chandos Highlights version for example uses only standard British English 6 Grainger s Ramble editPercy Grainger wrote an elaborate and complex piano transcription of a theme from Der Rosenkavalier The Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Der Rosenkavalier is one of his more complex piano transcriptions with many sumptuous ornamentations and harmonic twists and turns citation needed Recordings editMain article Der Rosenkavalier discography Artur Rodzinski recorded the suite with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London on Westminster Hi Fi XWN 18680 in 1958 References editNotes Strauss 1912 Kennedy 2001 p 892 Murray 1992 p 43 Hofmannsthal s friend Count Harry Kessler helped in creating the plot a conclusion based on entries in Kessler s diaries Kennedy 1999 p 163 Kennedy 2001 p 892 mentions Kessler s role but only credits Hofmannsthal for the libretto Murray 1992 pp 43 44 Kennedy 2001 p 892 The producer in Dresden was considered inadequate and Strauss sent Reinhardt to supervise and carry out his ideas although Reinhardt did not receive any credit in the programme May Thomas 2007 Looking Backward and Beyond San Francisco Opera Archived from the original on 11 May 2009 a b c d e Jefferson 1985 p page needed Opera statistics Operabase Archived from the original on 5 September 2015 Retrieved 14 October 2018 a b c Wilhelm Kurt 1989 Richard Strauss An Intimate Portrait Translated by Mary Whittall Thames amp Hudson p 120 124 Reynolds Michael 2016 Creating Der Rosenkavalier From Chevalier to Cavalier Boydell Press Murray 1992 Wessler Kai 2022 03 24 Wer war der Regisseur des Rosenkavalier Semperoper Dresden Retrieved 2023 03 03 a b Murray 1992 p 44 a b Die Premiere des Rosenkavalier in der Hofoper Neue Freie Presse 9 April 1911 p 16 in German a b c d e Casaglia Gherardo 2005 Performance History of Der Rosenkavalier L Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia in Italian Donal Henahan Met s New Rosenkavalier The New York Times 24 January 1969 Retrieved 24 September 2010 Amusements Der Rosenkavalier The Sydney Morning Herald 7 January 1936 Sir Edward Downes Conductor celebrated as one of the finest Verdi interpreters of his generation Elizabeth Forbes The Independent London 16 July 2009 The New Zealand Herald 2 Mar 2002 Brian Rudman full citation needed Work details at Boosey amp Hawkes work details at Schott Music Michael Kennedy 2011 1980 Comedy for Music Act Three Der Rosenkavalier Study Guide London Overture p 28 note 9 ISBN 9780714544953 Del Mar 2000 p 19 About the Piece Rosenkavalier Suite Archived 2014 07 14 at the Wayback Machine programme note on laphil com Don Anderson Programme Notes R Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier Archived 2014 07 14 at the Wayback Machine 2014 on Toronto Symphony Orchestra s website For example Beklagt Er sich uber das Qinquin in Wie Du warst on page 10 of the piano vocal score referred to below Sources Del Mar Norman 2000 Richard Strauss A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works Cornell University Press ISBN 978 0 8014 9318 8 Jefferson Alan 1985 Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Cambridge Opera Handbooks Cambridge ISBN 0 521 27811 2 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Kennedy Michael 1999 Richard Strauss Man Musician Enigma Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521581738 Kennedy Michael 2001 Richard Strauss In Amanda Holden ed The New Penguin Opera Guide New York and London Penguin Books pp 886 905 ISBN 0 14 029312 4 Murray David 1992 Rosenkavalier Der In Stanley Sadie ed The New Grove Dictionary of Opera Vol 4 London Macmillan pp 43 47 doi 10 1093 gmo 9781561592630 article o004998 ISBN 0 333 73432 7 Strauss Richard 1912 Der Rosenkavalier The Rose Bearer Comedy for Music in three Acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal English version by Alfred Kalisch vocal score in English and German London Boosey amp Hawkes OCLC 42239315 See also file 117568 at IMSLP Further reading editBoyden Matthew 1999 Richard Strauss Boston Northeastern University ISBN 1 55553 418 X Reynolds Michael Creating Der Rosenkavalier From Chevalier to Cavalier The Boydell Press ISBN 978 1 78327 049 1External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Der Rosenkavalier Der Rosenkavalier Scores at the International Music Score Library Project Piano vocal score Indiana University School of Music Libretto German opera guide ch opera arias com Der Rosenvavalier synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD website Recording of Da geht er hin by Lotte Lehmann in MP3 format Marie Theres Hab mir s gelobt on YouTube sung by the original cast Siems von der Osten Nast Portal nbsp Opera Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Der Rosenkavalier amp oldid 1187438597, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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