Cheryl Studer as die Feldmarschallin in DER ROSENKAVALIER - Excerpts - Vienna, 6 October ’97

IN-HOUSE RECORDING, 6 October 1997, Vienna State Opera, Dirigent - Leopold Hager

With these in-house recordings, best to listen through earbuds or headphones.

1 - Act I: “Da geht er hin … Ach, du bist wieder da! ... Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar Ding ... Mein schöner Schatz ... Ich werd' jetzt in die Kirchen geh'n” - with Susan Graham as Octavian (00:04)
2 - Act III: Trio ”Marie Theres'!...Hab' mir's gelobt” - with Susan Graham as Octavian and Juliane Banse as Sophie (24:29)

From the audio files of the complete performance made available to the public by HC Leskov-Fischer.

It is an unalloyed pleasure to hear the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera play and sound here like its former fabled self, the orchestra’s singular style and sonorities being so crucial to this particular work. On another note, it is lamentable that the planned recording of this work for Teldec sometime in ’01 for which Studer had been presumably chosen as the Marschallin and which would have become part of Giuseppe Sinopoli’s series of Dresden recordings of the works of Richard Strauss for the record label, was not to be due to Mo. Sinopoli’s untimely passing that same year.

Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Image of Studer - As the Marschallin, Metropolitan Opera, November 2000