‘Hooray for director Harry Kupfer! His Salzburg Festival production transfers Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier from the 18th century to 1911 when it was composed, and all the traditional cuts in the opera have been restored.’ Christopher Cook
R Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier
Stoyanova, Groissböck, Koch, Eröd, Erdmann, Dussmann, Schassching, Lehmkuhl, Pop, Kehrer, Piskowski, Supper, Singer, Sadnik; Vienna Philharmonic/Franz-Wesler Möst; dir. Harry Kupfer (Salzburg, 2014)
C Major DVD: 719 308; Blu-ray: 719 404
Read the rest of this review in the April 2015 issue of BBC Music Magazine