"With three Swedish Met-singers in the leading roles it is at times unbearably beautiful." SvD

"A production that should gain international acclaim." DN

"Will surely take its rightful place in Swedish Opera History." Borås Tidning

"The Opera event of the autumn, a production of highest international class." SVT

"The most complete, thought out performance I have ever seen at the Göteborg Opera." Radio Gbg

Baron von Ochs, who loses his fiancée and is wounded in a duel, all within a short space of time, philosophises on life. We get to follow the twists and turns in connection with Baron von Ochs’s attempts at proposing to the beautiful Miss Sophie. We will see how Octavian, receiving the glorious assignment of delivering the proposal of marriage by handing over a silver rose, falls in love with Sophie himself. We will be laughing at von Ochs as he flirts with a maid, in actual fact Octavian dressed up in women’s clothes. Perhaps the Baron is right: anything can happen in Vienna.

Is Der Rosenkavalier a comedy? Indeed, but it is also a slightly melancholy reflection on the inexorable progress of time, on the fact that no one escapes ageing.

When the performance starts the Marschallin and Octavian have just woken up after a night of passion. In the midst of all the joy, however, lies the seed of sorrow; the Marschallin predicts that Octavian will soon be leaving her for a younger, more beautiful woman.

The cast includes Nina Stemme, Katarina Karnéus, Camilla Tilling and Anders Lorentzson

Conductor: Olaf Henzhold
Director: Yannis Houvardas
Set Design: Lars-Åke Thessman
Costumes: Karin Erskine
Lighting: Torkel Blomkvist