Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du
Ernst Edler von Schuch conducting Der Rosenkavalier (1912), by Robert Sterl
Hogarth's The Countess's Morning Levee (ca. 1744), the inspiration for the Marschallin's morning reception[citation needed]
1927 portrait of Richard Mayr as Ochs by Anton Faistauer. Mayr sang this role 149 times in Vienna, Salzburg and London.
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Der Rosenkavalier
…Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. It was first…
Photograph by Nicola Perscheid, 1910
The house where Hofmannsthal was born, at Salesianergasse 12, Landstraße, Vienna 3
Photograph of his younger son, Raimund