GENRE: Opera
RATING: NR
RUNNING TIME: 4:45
RELEASE DATE: April 30, 2023
STARRING: Lise Davidsen, Erin Morley, Isabel Leonard
DIRECTOR: Simone Young
WRITER(S): Richard Strauss
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging.