Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Performance

About the Event

The Estonian Opera will perform Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" (The Knight of the Rose) in a concert performance at the  Estonia Concert Hall.

 

If you love somebody, let them go…

When beginning on “Der Rosenkavalier”, Richard Strauss was eager to create a comedy in the style of Mozart. Together, Strauss and Hofmannstahl produced a beautiful and touching masterpiece, filled with poetic musical elegance and sensitive characterisation. “Der Rosenkavalier” is a comic opera whose deeper level is exposed through a bitter‐sweet love story.

The married princess Marie Thérčse von Werdenberg (Marschallin) is in love with the younger Octavian. However, she recognises that the passing of time cannot be slowed down. Realising that she will inevitably lose Octavian sooner or later, Marschallin chooses to set him free. She nominates him as “knight of the rose” to present a silver rose to the woman betrothed to the rich but brutish Baron Ochs. The young man and the bride fall in love and the baron is thwarted in his marriage plans.

“Der Rosenkavalier” was one of Strauss’ favourite operas that with its affluent orchestration and flowing melodies is a treat for all gourmets of music. The concert performance of Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” is already the 11th in the long series of Estonian National Opera concert performances. During the past seasons there have been performances of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”, Mozart’s “La clemenza di Tito”, Catalani’s “La Wally”, Bellini’s “I puritani”, “Norma” and “I Capuleti e i Montecchi”, Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra”, Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell”, Donizetti’s “Poliuto” and Rimsky‐Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride” have been performed to a great acclaim in previous seasons.

Conductor: Vello Pähn