Rosenkavalier 2014Edinburgh Players Opera Group
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Edinburgh Players' Opera Group this year selected Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier as a break in the sequence of Wagner's operas. There are always those who avoid 'amateur' performances, but the players in this enterprise reached a particularly high standard in the level of professional training. Also, they performing for the love of it!
As before, the players rehearsed the opera on the Friday and Saturday and then on the Sunday performed the work complete. Members of the public are welcome, with a voluntary donation of £15 requested to help cover costs (the participants pay more!).
The conductor was, as usual, Mike Thorne, and the leader Iain Scott. Most of the singers had taken part in previous years.
Contact address for the group was michael.thorne@anglia.ac.uk.
Performance Cast
- Feldmarschallin Marie-Therese, Princess of Werdenberg (the Field-Marshal's wife)
- Octavian Count Rofrano
- Ochs Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
- Major- domo to the Marschallin
- Milliner
- Notary
- Valzacchi an intriguer
- Annina Valzacchi's accomplice
- Tenor
- Faninal Herr von Faninal, a rich merchant
- Sophie Sophie von Faninal, his daughter
- Marianne Marianne Leitmetzerin, Sophie's duenna
- Major-domo to Faninal
- Landlord
- Commissioner of Police