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The Metropolitan Opera

 

Live broadcasts from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Saturday morning on Capital Public Radio.

Schedule

Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
December through May
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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

  

Der Rosenkavalier
by Richard Strauss


Conducted by Sebastian Weigle

 

Renée Fleming stars as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’s grandest opera with a sparklingly perfect score.

Strauss’s most popular opera concerns a wise woman of the world who is involved with a much younger lover but ultimately forced to accept the laws of time, giving him up to a pretty young heiress. The libretto deftly combines comedy, dreamy nostalgic fantasy, genuine human drama, and light but striking touches of philosophy and social commentary. Strauss’s magnificent score, likewise, works on several levels, combining the refinement of Mozart with the epic grandeur of Wagner.

The opera is originally set in Vienna in the 1740s. Genuine historical references are merged with fictitious inventions (like the “noble custom” of the presentation of the silver rose to a fiancée, which never actually existed) and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’s new production moves the setting to the last years of the Habsburg Empire.

Despite earlier reports that Ms Fleming is to retire from the opera stage with this performance, she is not. She clarifies her plans in an article with NPR (see the link on this page).  
 
This production will also be broadcast in HD to cinemas in our area starting at 9:55am. See the "LINKS" section for information and to search for a theater near you. 

 

Start time: 10:00 AM on Capital Public Radio.
Approximate running time 4 hrs 12 min


This is the final Metropolitan Opera broadcast of the season.
Met Opera broadcasts return in December.

 

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Related Links

  • About 'Der Rosenkavalier' on the Met Opera website.
  • Find a local cinema
  • Renée Fleming is NOT retiring from opera (NPR article)

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  • 2021   
    • April   
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: Rusalka
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Don Giovanni
      • Met Opera: Le Comte Ory
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Carmen
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier
      • Met Opera: La Rondine
      • Met Opera: Cendrillon
      • Met Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Faust
      • Met Opera: Il Trovatore
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
      • Met Opera: Satyagraha
  • 2020   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel
      • Met Opera: Fidelio
      • Met Opera: War and Peace
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Maria Stuarda
      • Met Opera: Káťa Kabanová
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Turandot
      • Met Opera: Simon Boccanegra
      • Met Opera: Tosca
      • Met Opera: Orfeo ed Euridice
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Werther
      • Met Opera: La Cenerentola
      • Met Opera: Der Fliegende Holländer
      • Met Opera: Così fan tutte
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Agrippina
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Manon
      • Met Opera: La Damnation de Faust
      • Met Opera: Porgy and Bess
    • January   
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Wozzeck
      • Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier
  • 2019   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: Macbeth
      • Met Opera: The Queen of Spades
      • Met Opera: Akhnaten
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites
      • Met Opera: Aida
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Götterdämmerung
      • Met Opera: La Clemenza di Tito
      • Met Opera: Siegfried
      • Met Opera: Tosca
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Die Walküre
      • Met Opera: Samson et Dalila
      • Met Opera: Falstaff
      • Met Opera: Das Rheingold
      • Met Opera: La Fille du Régiment
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Rigoletto
      • Met Opera: Don Giovanni
      • Iolanta and Bluebeard's Castle
      • Met Opera: Carmen
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Marnie
      • Met Opera: Pelléas et Mélisande
      • Met Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur
      • Met Opera: Otello
  • 2018   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: La Fanciulla del West
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Il Trittico
      • Met Opera: Mefistofele
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Roméo et Juliette
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Cendrillon
      • Met Opera: The Exterminating Angel
      • Met Opera: Luisa Miller
      • Met Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Così fan tutte
      • Met Opera: Turandot
      • Met Opera: Elektra
      • Met Opera: Semiramide
      • Met Opera: Madama Butterfly
    • February   
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: Parsifal
      • Met Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore
      • Met Opera: Il Trovatore
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Tosca
      • Met Opera: Thaïs
      • Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
      • Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel
  • 2017   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Merry Widow
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Norma
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: Requiem
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier
      • Met Opera: Cyrano de Bergerac
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Der Fliegende Holländer
      • Met Opera: Eugene Onegin
      • Met Opera: Aida
      • Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde
      • Met Opera: Fidelio
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Idomeneo
      • Met Opera: Guillaume Tell
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Werther
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Rusalka
      • Met Opera: I Puritani
      • Met Opera: Carmen
      • Met Opera: Rigoletto
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
      • Met Opera: Roméo et Juliette
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: Nabucco
  • 2016   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: L’Italiana in Algeri
      • Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel
      • Met Opera: Salome
      • Met Opera: L’Amour de Loin
      • Met Opera: Manon Lescaut
    • May   
      • Met Opera: National Council Auditions Final Concert
      • Met Opera: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Elektra
      • Met Opera: Otello
      • Met Opera: Roberto Devereux
      • Met Opera: Simon Boccanegra
      • Met Opera: Madama Butterfly
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore
      • Met Opera: Don Pasquale
      • Met Opera: Manon Lescaut
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Lulu
      • Met Opera: Maria Stuarda
      • Met Opera: Il Trovatore
      • Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Turandot
      • Met Opera: Tannhäuser
      • Met Opera: The Pearl Fishers
      • Met Opera: Anna Bolena
      • Met Opera: Die Fledermaus
  • 2015   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Barber of Seville
      • Met Opera: La Donna del Lago
      • Met Opera: Rigoletto
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
    • May   
      • Met Opera: The Rake's Progress
      • Met Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
      • Met Opera: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
      • Met Opera: Don Carlo
      • Met Opera: Ernani
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
      • Met Opera: Manon
      • Met Opera: La Donna del Lago
      • Met Opera: Carmen
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Die Zauberflote
      • Met Opera: Don Giovanni
  • 2014   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
      • Met Opera: IL Barbiere Di Siviglia (Rossini)

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