Der Rosenkavalier

Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Music: Richard Strauss, 1910

Premiere: Hofoper, Dresden on 26th January 1911

Setting: Mid-eighteenth century Vienna, in the first years of the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa

Dramatis Personae

• The Feldmarschallin (Marschallin), Marie Thrse, Princess Werdenberg (Soprano)
• Octavian, Count Rofrano ('Quinquin'), her young lover (Mezzo-Soprano)
• Baron Ochs of Lerchenau, her cousin (Bass)
• Herr von Faninal, a rich merchant (Baritone)
• Sophie, his daughter (Soprano)
• Marianne Leitmetzerin, her duenna (Soprano)
• Valzacchi, an intriguer (Tenor)
• Annina, his niece and accomplice (Alto)
• A Police Commissioner (Bass)
• The Marschallin's Major Domo (Tenor)
• Faninal's Major Domo (Tenor)
• A notary (Bass)
• An inn-keeper (Tenor)
• An Italian singer (Tenor)
• A milliner (Soprano)
• An animal vendor (Tenor)
• Three noble orphans (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto)
• Four footmen to the Marschallin (2 Tenor, 2 Bass)
• Four waiters (1 Tenor, 3 Bass)

• Mohammed, the Marschallin's black page
• A scholar, a flautist, a hairdresser and his assistant, a noble widow
• Servants, guests, hired deceivers, children, constables, musicians

External links

• Synopsis

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