OperaKino: Der Rosenkavalier from Zürich Opera

Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is screened live from Zürich Opera in this OperaKino production. The story follows the Marschallin, who loves the young Octavian but knows she will one day lose him to a younger woman. She helps him court the beautiful Sophie, who has been forced into an unwanted marriage.

The opera ends with a moving and dignified farewell: Octavian and Sophie are free to be together, while the Marschallin gracefully steps aside. The new production was entrusted to director Lydia Steier, with scenery by Gottfried Helnwein, who uses colour as the central tool to shape and distinguish the three acts.

Diana Damrau sings the Marschallin, Angela Brower sings Octavian and Emily Pogorelc sings Sophie. Günther Groissböck's Baron Ochs is widely regarded as one of the finest of our time.