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MSM Faculty Emeritus Recital: Nils Vigeland

Manhattan School of Music

The opera DER ROSENKAVALIER leads into the bedroom of a princess and straight into the intimate conversation with her youthful lover. Inspired by the ancient tragedy ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss and the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal envisioned something entirely new: a comedy for music. Cheerful, light, and elegant, conciliatory yet profound in its emotions and thoughts – and, of course, Austrian in its burlesque wit while at the same time touched by melancholy reflection. Thus the authors created the famous figure of the Field Marshal's wife, Princess Werdenberg who bears the first name Marie-Thérèse for good reason and entrusted her with the leading role in the opera DER ROSENKAVALIER, premiered in 1911.

Jing Yang

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Sep 27 - Dec 20, 2026

Der Rosenkavalier · Oper Köln

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Nov 17, 2023

MSM Faculty Emeritus Recital: Nils Vigeland · Manhattan School of Music

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Three noble orphans in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

Oper Köln

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