Met Opera at the METinee: Der Rosenkavalier

Wando Mount Pleasant — Join us for the latest installment in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2022–23 Live in HD season with Richard Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy, Der Rosenkavalier. Due to shipping delays, this date has been changed from May 6 to Saturday, May 20 at 1 p.m. in Community Room B. 

Set in an idealized Vienna of the past, Strauss’s most popular opera concerns a wise woman of the world who is involved with a much younger lover but ultimately forced to accept the laws of time, giving him up to a pretty young heiress. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart.

Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging.