Why Der Rosenkavalier is Strauss’ best
![The Silver Rose used in the Vienna premiere of Der Rosenkavalier in 1911.](http://soundslikesydney.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/028-180x240.jpg)
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.