A Dance to the Music of Time: Der Rosenkavalier returns to DNO

Maria Bengtsson (Marschallin)

Angela Brower (Octavian) and Nina Minasyan (Sophie)

Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs)

Der Rosenkavalier

By Eleanor Knight, 15 April 2023

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“they were as deliciously irresistible as any fleeting love affair ought to be”

Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 13 April 2023

Strauss R., Der Rosenkavalier

Dutch National Opera

Lorenzo Viotti, Conductor

Jan Philipp Gloger, Director

Ben Baur, Set Designer

Karin Jud, Costume Designer

Bernd Purkrabek, Lighting Designer

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

Maria Bengtsson, Feldmarschallin

Angela Brower, Octavian

Christof Fischesser, Baron Ochs

Nina Minasyan, Sophie

Martin Gantner, Herr von Faninal

Lucas van Lierop, Feldmarschallin's Major-Domo

Marcel Reijans, Valzacchi

Iris van Wijnen, Marianne

Eva Kroon, Annina

Marcel Beekman, An innkeeper

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.

A Dance to the Music of Time: Der Rosenkavalier returns to Dutch National Opera