Opera Cheat Sheet: Der Rosenkavalier

In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director, St.John Flynn, and opera expert Eric Skelly, discuss R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, a comedy that harkens back to Vienna during the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa, and to the comic operas of Mozart.  The Marschallin laments that she must give up her young lover, Octavian, who has fallen in love with Sophie, a girl his own age, who is betrothed to the oafish buffoon... Read More