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Der Rosenkavalier, gilded and lithe, at the Lyric Opera

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“Rose manages to convey, breathtakingly, a terrible fragility at the heart of encrusted power”
Reviewed at Lyric Opera House, Chicago on 8 February 2016
Strauss R., Der Rosenkavalier
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Edward Gardner, Conductor
Amanda Majeski, Feldmarschallin
Christina Landshamer, Sophie
Sophie Koch, Octavian
Matthew Rose, Baron Ochs
Martin Gantner, Herr von Faninal
René Barbera, Italian Singer
Martina Weber, Revival Director
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