Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier

Carsen reminds us that this is Vienna waltzing on the edge of a volcano…There’s no denying the care with which [Fleming] sings the role, even if she never quite manages to act from within…[Garanča]... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: 0743945
Label: Decca

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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier

Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Elīna Garanča (Octavian), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs), Erin Morley (Sophie), Markus Brück (Herr von Faninal), Matthew Polenzani (An Italian singer)
Metropolitan Opera
Sebastian Weigle

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Decca Classics and The Metropolitan Opera present Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, featuring a star-studded cast including Renée Fleming and Elīna Garanča.

This is Renée Fleming’s last ever performance of the Marschallin, one of her signature roles, as performed at the Metropolitan Opera following a run at London’s Royal Opera House earlier this year.

This new and notable production sees Robert Carsen update the setting to Vienna in 1911, the year of the opera’s premiere.

“The dramatic chemistry between Ms. Fleming and Ms. Garanča came through in their every exchange” New York Times

“[Renée Fleming] sings the arching melodic line that begins Strauss’s transcendent trio with seamless phrasing and ethereal sound, her more mature voice blending poignantly with the youthful colorings of Ms. Morley and Ms. Garanča.” The New Yorker

‘[Renée Fleming’s] singing…had all the gilded smoothness one could want” The Guardian (on Royal Opera House performance)

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March 2018

Carsen reminds us that this is Vienna waltzing on the edge of a volcano…There’s no denying the care with which [Fleming] sings the role, even if she never quite manages to act from within…[Garanča] is a mercurial Octavian, a fully realised character and in fine voice…but the acting and singing honours really belong to Günter Groissböck’s Ochs. Younger than usual, he’s less a boor than a life force bursting through the gentility of Old Vienna.

March 2018

Fleming has always been good at the modern psychological side of the Marschallin, clearly focused on the role’s dilemma of ageing; Garanča presents her character’s age, masculinity and boy/girl comedy with at least as much aplomb and sheer energy as any Octavian since Brigitte Fassbaender or Janet Baker…the performances are so refined, this DVD, a historic event, can be recommended in a crowded market.

Classical Music January 2018

Robert Carsen’s pre-first world war setting provides an apt and glamorous backdrop for the love, loss and mayhem looked down upon disapprovingly by ancestral portraits, a world soon to end in the onslaught of war. Fleming defies the years and is on best vocal behaviour. She oozes glamour, and has one eye on the past but one on the future: once she’s over her self- absorption she rallies and finally departs with the Police Commissioner. Her soprano still possesses the most alluring shimmer. Garanča is equally superlative, her tone rich and supple, her acting astonishingly good, the most convincing youth imaginable.

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