| Royal Swedish Opera | ||
| Alan Gilbert | Conductor | |
| Christof Loy | Director | |
| Dirk Becker | Set Designer | |
| Barbara Drosihn | Costume Designer | |
| Royal Swedish Opera Chorus | ||
| Royal Swedish Orchestra | ||
| Malin Byström | Soprano | Feldmarschallin |
| Elin Rombo | Soprano | Sophie |
| Adrian Angelico | Mezzo-soprano | Octavian |
| Ola Eliasson | Baritone | Herr von Faninal |
| Wilhelm Schwinghammer | Bass | Baron Ochs |
| Marie-Louise Granström | Mezzo-soprano | Annina |
| Olof Lilja | Tenor | A vendor of pets |
| Anders Blom | Tenor | Feldmarschallin's Major-Domo |
| Klas Hedlund | Tenor | Italian Singer |
| Jon Nilsson | Tenor | Faninal's Major-Domo |
| Kristian Flor | Bass-baritone | Police inspector |
| Aled Hall | Tenor | Valzacchi |
| Sara Olsson | Soprano | Marianne |
4 hours and 15 minutes
Sung in German with Swedish surtitles
The beautiful, much admired Marie Thérèse lives in her fancy flat in Vienna. Her husband is away and she has an affair with the young Octavian. Life is good. When Baron Ochs comes calling, Octavian has to dress up as a woman to escape detection. But when Octavian leaves Marie Thérèse for the young Sophie, she is confronted with the realisation that her life is emptier than she had thought, and that both beauty and life itself are fading away around her
Der Rosenkavalier is one of Richard Strauss’s most popular operas. It is staged at the Royal Swedish Opera by acclaimed German director Christof Loy, who drew his inspiration from 18th-century Vienna, contemporary Stockholm and the Drottningholm Court Theatre. The field marshal’s wife, Marie Thérèse, is played by critically acclaimed soprano Malin Byström.
