Richard Strauss - Final Scene from Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss - Final Scene from Der Rosenkavalier
Elīna Garanča (Octavian)
Renée Fleming (Marschallin)
Erin Morley (Sophie)
Markus Brück (Faninal)
The Metropolitan Opera, 2017

[@operalover1010]

I'll never forget seeing Der Rosenkavalier with these three - May 5, 2017. One of my fondest operatic memories.

[@dantefiorentino3612]

Physically, Garanca is the most convincing Octavian ever! Really handsome! :-)

[@Mr.Dziej72]

And she captures perfectly the physicality of a young man too -- the way a young man would walk, hold and move his body. Pretty incredible. Some serious thought and study has gone into the development of the character.

[@elizabethferidobohlin9943]

Elena Garanca is one of my most favourite opera singers but speaking of the best Octavian ever, I would point my finger toAnne Sofie von Otter…tall, blonde, aristocratic (a Baroness in real life) who Richard Strauss envisioned for such role. I read somewhere that when Strauss was composing Der Rosenkavalier, he had in mind the Australian-Hungarian Prince Esterhazy. Ms von Otter epitomises those qualities added by her rich mezzo soprano voice. (Just saying…..)

[@elizabethferidobohlin9943]

Correction: Austro-Hungarian

[@peterbond9369]

Garanca was also genuinely funny in act II. REMARKABLE SINGING ACTRESS.

[@lindseydejesus1877]

i think 2017 rosenkav was so good because the singers were really feeling their roles: erin is a young singer just beginning the rise of her career, elina is shifting identities from young to more mature, and renee is about to leave a chapter of her life behind forever as she grows older. it's like a coming of age for all three of them...

[@barrymorentz5190]

So well said!!

[@windstorm1000]

Apt!

[@hoodroberts]

I weep uncontrollably every time I hear the Final Trio. Every . . . single . . . time. Music that touches the soul. Opera at its finest. The other day I was discussing the Final Trio with a friend and I was tearing up just thinking about it.

[@zap7777]

I can understand that. Another scene where I mostly have to fight with tears is the quintet in Wagners Meistersinger

[@beatrizmirandamezzo]

Same, it’s just magical ❤️

[@barrymorentz5190]

The final scene of Parsifal does it for me. The Rosenkavalier trio has always been the first piece of music I would play upon returning from a trip

[@starlingbird]

Oh me too.... Especially when you understand that she loves the young man so much to give him to the young girl. Sigh... The most brilliant 3-soprano aria ever! A masterpiece!

[@robbiehayes5508]

It's magic every time.

[@chucknyc123]

I can't t watch this without crying. It is absolutely sublime.

[@peterschwarzenbacher6904]

Jetzt hätte ich beinahe Renee Fleming nicht erkannt, auch nicht im ersten Singen - wunderschön!

[@metacarple]

This is the most up- market, luxurious low class inn on the outskirts of Vienna I have ever seen.

[@spn1007]

Actually the TeKanawa and Popp production is almost as lavish!!

[@Marcel_Audubon]

You need to get out more!

[@testdriveguy]

I had the great fortune to be able to see this live at the Met. It was exquisite. Morley, as always, was perfection. Fleming, of course . . . beyond amazing.

[@ericdmoore3432]

Exquisite production that honored Fleming’s farewell to the Met and Garanca’s final performances as Octavian. The best version on KZbin!

[@emjdeckwitz6949]

one name: Carlos Kleiber.

[@josiashamman5318]

Absolutely macnifficent

[@barbaranorthwood]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[@Tysknaden]

Probably the only version you know. Compare it to the Schwarzkopf-Jurinac-Rothenberger video.

[@jaykauffman4775]

Schwarzkopf-Jurinac-Rothenberger = Karajan is better

[@edwardtodd9734]

Imagine your first Rosenkavalier, having not heard any of the music or even read the plot. Mine was in 1971 with Jurinac, Fassbender ,Popp.

[@edwardtodd9734]

And then this comes

[@citadeac5067]

Floating towards Heaven and never return . The three divas are absolutely fascinating.

[@Hailstormand]

I can't write a single coherent sentence while listening to this trio. Everything that has been expressed before and cannot be expressed since is contained within this capsule.

[@coloratura_runs]

Oh no, I listened to this on public transport again. "Ma'am, are you okay?" Me, visibly weeping: "I'm FINE".

[@cfiszbin]

same every single time haha

[@GeoSF0926]

Purely sublime in every way.

[@AG6NC]

When I listen to this wonderful final scene I think that at one time, in another life, that I was at its first performance with a lady who I deeply loved

[@chocolatesouljah]

Isn't opera, music transformative that way. Encouraging us to imagine other worlds and lifetimes! 🙌🏾

[@damon4802]

Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, a fitting farewell to two of the great voices of the era.

[@cinziavidali411]

L'opera più bella di Strauss in un allestimento prestigioso

[@Jaaric]

Fleming's "In gotters namen" is really wonderfully emotional, as is Garanca's "die Frag." Thanks for the upload!

[@pega17pl]

Wie Kiri Te Kanawa ist Renée Fleming eine Traumbesetzung für die Marschallin im Rosemkavalier. Man kann als Opernliebhaber den beiden Damen nicht genug danken, was sie für das German Fach großartiges weltweit geleistet haben. - Grüße, Heinz

[@windstorm1000]

Its an immortal trio-- touches the heart Depending on the character of letting go or finding oneself-or both. Its life and passages we go thru of grace and acceptance or new love...

[@claudiajack1986]

Bellisimo !! Una delicia las voces e interpretaciones de Elina, Renée, Erin ...

[@raymondsmyth2169]

Simply sublime thank you.

[@Wolfsky9]

Even an opera novice like myself -----------can love this music & the 3 amazing voices.

[@pattiamstutz4918]

OMG it is so beautiful.!!!!

[@adriannoe9841]

Que maravilla Elina !!!!!

[@brynjarhoff-lr6hw]

Great-Great singing…thank you ladyes!

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

Truly divine. Far beyond music

[@nevillemignot1681]

Perhaps the final scene here is the best of performances of this Opera, and the best example of this example of all of this art form?

[@rosy3385]

Une très belle production du MET !

[@leonardogiacobbe5422]

Adoro Renee Fleming❤️❤️❤️

[@berndhuebel5665]

A wonderful final with the Divas! I m impressed! In Gottes Namen! Wie schön! Viele Grüße from the Münsterland in Northwestern Germany, ​​​​​​​Bernd.

[@11sesquialtera]

tears always

[@MANUELGARCIAGARCIA-bx5wq]

magnifica puesta en escena y mejores voces. ALINA enorme , y Fleming grande como siempre

[@pierrefoul5960]

Sachez que parmi les milliers d'espèces qui pullulent dans l'univers , nous sommes la seule ayant ce don ... jusqu'à ce jour on n'en a pas découvert d'autres

[@leilasiebert9082]

Thank you very much for this video!

[@MrOlogramma]

Tears tears and tears

[@Dylonely42]

One of the best finales in my opinion.

[@charlescoleman5509]

As partial as I am to the previous Met production by Nathaniel Merrill, this is a good one.

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Spirit of ecstasy.

[@alixxu5417]

les charmantes !

[@eduardocifuentesayucar7500]

Quiza,sobra un poco de besuqueo de mas por por parte de Naranća. La escena esta recargada de besos. Lo demás magistral.

[@kathrynschwarz2627]

envidioso

[@wilfriedfriedrich3730]

Great Art ❤️🌹🙏

[@renzo6490]

Just listen....

[@CvS2016]

Just fantastic. But tempo here is a bit to slow for me.

[@johannesbrahms7414]

For me it's never "RAPTUROUSLY SLOW ENOUGH !!!!

[@jaykauffman4775]

The scene is SUPPOSED to be in a rather seedy inn. I far preferred the previous MET production. Singing here quite good

[@Marcel_Audubon]

seedy is in the eye of the fornicator

[@rominn2184]

Agreed. Short of the Hapsburg period at the turn of the century (around the time this opera was composed) setting being perfectly logical and fitting, I did not like this production. There are simply things that are completely out of place and make no sense - like the Ancient Greek art motifs in the Fanninal manor, and the falling down little dance those figures in the dark do at the very end of the opera right as the last notes are played before the curtain falls. Just completely arbitrary, random, and distracting.

[@pierrefoul5960]

Sommet de l'art lyrique

[@andrewbreslin8298]

A bit good, supposed to show off your superior culture by making 1 complaint and saying x was soo much better but you can't.

[@cufflink44]

If there were a Heaven, this is what it would sound like.

[@johnmanno2052]

Octavian finally looks like a guy and not like a woman in drag

[@annagunthernestrahl8444]

Elina Garanca was fantastic as Octavian.

[@levieuxpiano]

Les trois sont au sommet.

[@iraismedrano2645]

es de otra galatziaaaaa 😱😱😱😱

[@CvS2016]

Also reminds what a genius hoffmansthal was.

[@donalddouce8411]

This should only be staged in an 18th century setting. the story is formed around that specific society and period. Why does it have to be changed? It is a major artistic mistake

[@MrsSedley]

Conductor? Not only is it way too slow, Fleming milks the opening, though sings it so well. It's moving enough as it is.

[@talmagebandy667]

The best ever.

[@Dylonely42]

5:37

[@frederickthompson2697]

NO!!!! Not at all what Strauss intended for the ended!!!! SHAME....F.

[@juanitoalimana3131]

Qué simpático, han convertido al criado negrito en un niño judío

[@pennytravers5991]

Yes. A fabulous love story opera ruined by that tedious scene in the tavern. Should have been rewritten.

[@partituravid]

Too, too, too slow. All sense of 3/4 is lost in the first phrase. And the ensemble between the 3 voices in insensitive to the harmony.

[@remomazzetti8757]

Great singing, typically horrible updated production. The Met's a disgrace for so many reasons. Get rid of Peter Gelb before he completely destroys the institution!

[@humorya]

Is this have homoerotism or not?

[@charmeueueur]

It is nice to explore new music around. Please make sure before you make a comment, that at least you have read a wikipedia article or something. Have no time for this.

[@robertyoung7052]

See no evil, hear no evil

[@tomhase7007]

@@charmeueueur What are you talking about? Of course, the homoerotic aspect is fully intended by the authors.and discussed at length in the letters between Strauss and Hoffmannsthal. So I think that Mrs. Karamzina has understood more about the piece than whoever wrote that Wikipedia article.

[@charmeueueur]

@@tomhase7007 the only think that I am going to say is that if you think my reference is a Wikipedia article and this is what my comment was about, you are very welcome.

[@raffaelepianese9328]

@@tomhase7007 That's why Strauss wanted a mezzo en travestì. If he wanted, along with Hoffmannsthal, to be clear about the fact that was a straight relationship he could've easily chosen a tenor. But, as you say, their intention was clear in their letters. Of course Wikipedia wanna-be music critics or "historians" often, if not always, impose some casual erasure of homosexuality in music and in history.

[@ransomcoates546]

If there was ever operatic music that demanded the singers to stand in one place and sing this is it. More stupid staging. (Fleming’s slurpy mewing doesn’t help either.)

[@crazyorganist1609]

Of course. She's not suitable for the role

[@ssballs]

Slurpy mewing....lol. Well. She's done.

[@bobkurland186]

a disaster, compared to historical versions--not musically but in action. Why do the two lovers stay in bed, and why did not the blackamoor page come in at the very end to pick up the Marschalin's hankerchief? Concessions to popular and politically correct taste? Bah!!!

[@hugonino2824]

If they does the Mohammed as a black servant during this tieme in 2020 there would be a riot outside of the MET protesting, and I personally consider this a better ending, where Marschallin keeps her dignity and gets redemption.

[@Bumblebeebeebee]

Stupid comment.

[@drbarbarabaker]

Stop at the end of the trio.

[@bobkurland186]

@@drbarbarabaker because the page coming in to pick up the hankerchief is an integral part of the ending of the opera, musically and thematically

[@drbarbarabaker]

@@bobkurland186 I know. I hate the whole ending in this version.

[@crazyorganist1609]

Christa Ludwig and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf still own these roles. Renee Fleming looks like a drag queen. Garanca is ok but still lacks emotion and depth Christa Ludwig had. Schwarzkopf powered through this. Fleming is clearly struggling with the demands of the role

[@Darwin-2847]

Renee Fleming is not struggling, but she is past her prime here. Look at the recording of this from 2010, she sounds amazing.

[@zap7777]

Christa Ludwig and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf were phantastic - but - no one owns these roles. If you like thme so much just don't listen to others. But stop making other singers bad.

[@crazyorganist1609]

@@zap7777 Fleming is struggling. Shes bot suited to this repetoire

[@ssballs]

I'll take the Crespin. A touch of French elegance and lightness over Fleming, anytime/ any day.

[@kurbiscremesuppe]

The problem with Fleming is not her beautiful voice and appearance, but the fact that her German is not good. I don't understand her words.

[@jct35j]

They should have all stopped singing a long time ago.

[@Dylonely42]

4:18

[@Dylonely42]

6:50

[@Dylonely42]

1:08

[@Dylonely42]

0:39