RICHARD STRAUSS

 

Der Rosenkavalier

 

Feldmarschallin - Adrianne Pieczonka

Baron Ochs - Franz Hawlata

Octavian - Angelika Kirchschlager

Faninal - Franz Grundheber

Sophie - Miah Persson

 

Wiener Philharmoniker / Semyon Bychkov

Directed by Robert Carsen

Set Design by Peter Pabst

 

Live Recording From The Salzburger Festspiele, 2004

 

This is one of the most talked about productions of recent Salzburg festival years – the 2004 staging of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier. The musical comedy has a deep-rooted performance tradition at the Salzburg Festival, but Robert Carsen’s new reading opened up a new view of this operatic staple while Semyon Bychkov leading the Vienna Philharmonic and a cast of internationally renowned singers guaranteed a high musical standard.

 

Semyon Bychkov conducts Strauss with fl exible nuances and a great deal of energy and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung praised the conductor’s ability “to make the dense textures of the score transparent and to throw light on the subtleties of the instrumentation”. The musical side of the performance was additionally sustained by the experience and longstanding Strauss tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic, according to the Münchner Merkur, the only “orchestra in the world that is capable of such decadent excesses and such gloriously honed waltzes.”

 

Carsen marked the work with a coherent vision, cleverly holding its three acts and almost 200 stage personnel together. The wide stage of the Großes Festspielhaus allowed him to keep the main action centre-stage, while the surrounding spaces were used to comment on the action.

 

Sound Format: PCM Stereo,

DD 5.1, DTS 5.1

Picture Format: 16:9

DVD Format: DVD 9 & DVD 5, NTSC

Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, ES, IT

Running Time: 201 mins

FSK: 0

Region Code: 0

Worldwide available excluding Japan

 

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