The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed more authentically in Dresden than anywhere else in the world: Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, which received its first performance in Dresden in 1911. Leading the ensemble was the radiant-voiced and profoundly thoughtful Marschallin of Anne Schwanewilms.
Richard Strauss
Original Music Composer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Writer
Uwe Eric Laufenberg
Director
Eiji Yoshida
Director
Anne Schwanewilms
Marschallin
Kurt Rydl
Baron Ochs
Anke Vondung
Octavian
Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
Herr von Faninal
Maki Mori
Sophie
Sabine Brohm
Valzacchi
Sabine Brohm
Marianne Leitmetzerin
Elisabeth Wilke
Annina
Fabio Luisi
Self - Conductor
