| Wednesday 16 November 2022 | 18:00 |
| La Monnaie | De Munt | ||
| Alain Altinoglu | Conductor | |
| Damiano Michieletto | Director | |
| Paolo Fantin | Set Designer | |
| Agostino Cavalca | Costume Designer | |
| Alessandro Carletti | Lighting Designer | |
| La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra | ||
| La Monnaie Choral Academy | ||
| Sally Matthews | Soprano | Feldmarschallin |
| Michèle Losier | Mezzo-soprano | Octavian |
| Martin Winkler | Baritone | Baron Ochs |
| Liv Redpath | Soprano | Sophie |
| Dietrich Henschel | Baritone | Herr von Faninal |
| Sabine Hogrefe | Soprano | Marianne |
| Yves Saelens | Tenor | Valzacchi |
| Carole Wilson | Mezzo-soprano | Annina |
| Juan Francisco Gatell | Tenor | Italian Singer |
| Alexander Vassiliev | Baritone | Police inspector, Notary |
| Lisa Willems | Soprano | A milliner |
| Alain-Pierre Wingelinckx | Tenor | A vendor of pets |
| Maxime Melnik | Tenor | Fieldmarschallin's Major-Domo, von Faninal's Major-Domo |
| Denzil Delaere | Tenor | An innkeeper |
| Annelies Kerstens | Soprano | Three noble orphans |
| Marta Beretta | Mezzo-soprano | Three noble orphans |
| Marie Virot | Mezzo-soprano | Three noble orphans |
| La Monnaie Children's and Youth Choirs |
The Marschallin is relishing time with her young lover, when her cousin’s sudden arrival ignites a comic chain of events. With honour at risk, social status bartered and happiness illusive, the Marschallin accepts time cannot be stopped and she must set young love free.
After opening the 2022-23 season in Brussels with Pikovaya Dama, La Monnaie / De Munt now streams Der Rosenkavalier live on OperaVision. The mystery of time resonates throughout Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s highly spiritual and nostalgic libretto, for which Richard Strauss took a step back in time to eighteenth-century Vienna. Waltzing in neoclassical style, with sublime lyricism and a refined orchestral palette, the opera looks back to the past, faded beauty, lost loves. Director Damiano Michieletto sets this intimate study of the human psyche in a snow-white dreamworld embellished with a dash of humour and surrealism. Strauss’s wonderful score – one of the most refined in the entire repertoire – is set to blossom under the baton of Alain Altinoglu.
