April 15, 2023
4h 40m
DE
Robert Carsen
A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging 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 baritone Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging.
Lise Davidsen
Marschallin
Erin Morley
Sophie
Samantha Hankey
Octavian
Katharine Goeldner
Annina
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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René Barbera
Italian Singer
Thomas Ebenstein
Valzacchi
Brian Mulligan
Faninal
Günther Groissböck
Baron Ochs