![]() But nothing goes according to plan and what really emerges from this thorny situation is the struggle between acceptance, denial and youthful love. True to the tradition, Baron Ochs elected Octavian, the rose-bearer, who was to deliver a silver rose to Ochs’ beloved, Sophie, as proof of his love, and in the hope of reaping the reward in matrimony. The title of the opera bears the name of an engagement tradition popular in Vienna in the eighteenth century. “The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all,Ī disguise, a duel and a duet – that just about sums it up in Richard Strauss’ extravagant Der Rosenkavalier, in which a wise, albeit ageing woman who is involved with a much younger lover, is ultimately forced to accept the laws of time, giving him up to a pretty young heiress. A new production from the Metropolitan Opera stage
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