Expect a full house for Strauss
A live performance of Richard Strauss’s beautiful operatic comedy, “Der Rosenkavalier,” will grace the big screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center this Saturday, April 15.
This Metropolitan Opera production is sung in German and will be broadcast with English subtitles live in High Definition from the Met stage.
Producer Robert Carson moves the setting from the original 1740s to the final years of the Habsburg Empire. Genuine historical references are merged with fictitious inventions, like the “noble custom” of the presentation of the silver rose to a fiancée, and anachronisms like the Viennese Waltz, which did not yet exist at that time. It’s a mixture that creates a seductive mythical landscape — a ceremonious and impossibly beautiful Vienna-that-never-was.
The Met has assembled an enviable cast to take on Strauss’ extraordinarily rich score. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover, Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal.
Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging.
Saturday’s performance begins at 9 am with a run time of approximately four hours and 30 minutes. Tickets are $22 for adults, $12 for students and $20 for seniors and OCCA members.
The Newport Performing Arts Center is located at 777 W. Olive Street. For more information, go to coastarts.org or call 541-265-2787.