Thespian Simon Callow believes that Der Rosenkavalier is Richard Strauss’ most successful opera.
“The stage throngs with action, comic intrigues, genre scenes, farce, double cross-dressing, but …..it hinges on moments of the most sublime stillness: the Marschallin’s meditation on time in the first act, the presentation of the silver rose in the second, and that final trio.”
Read the full feature in The Guardian.
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