Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera in three acts.
- Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Music: Richard Strauss, 1910
- Premiere: Hofoper, Dresden on 26th January 1911
- Setting: Mid-eighteenth century Vienna, in the first years of the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa
Dramatis Personae
- The Feldmarschallin (Marschallin), Marie Thérèse, Princess Werdenberg (Soprano)
- Octavian, Count Rofrano ('Quinquin'), her young lover (Mezzo-Soprano)
- Baron Ochs of Lerchenau, her cousin (Bass)
- Herr von Faninal, a rich merchant (Baritone)
- Sophie, his daughter (Soprano)
- Marianne Leitmetzerin, her duenna (Soprano)
- Valzacchi, an intriguer (Tenor)
- Annina, his niece and accomplice (Alto)
- A Police Commissioner (Bass)
- The Marschallin's Major Domo (Tenor)
- Faninal's Major Domo (Tenor)
- A notary (Bass)
- An inn-keeper (Tenor)
- An Italian singer (Tenor)
- A milliner (Soprano)
- An animal vendor (Tenor)
- Three noble orphans (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto)
- Four footmen to the Marschallin (2 Tenor, 2 Bass)
- Four waiters (1 Tenor, 3 Bass)
Plus the following silent parts:
- Mohammed, the Marschallin's black page
- A scholar, a flautist, a hairdresser and his assistant, a noble widow
- Servants, guests, hired deceivers, children, constables, musicians
