Things are heating up in the Faninal household! The nouveau riche is eagerly awaiting the wedding of his daughter Sophie - it is to be a noble groom. However, it is not the intended candidate, the Baron Ochs, who will win Sophie's heart, but the bearer of the silver engagement rose: the young Count Octavian. Before his secret lover, the Feldmarschallin, releases Octavian for the union, Baron Ochs is publicly disgraced in a suburban pub ...

Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is one of the most beautiful, stirring and moving musical comedies of all time. Now Josef E. Köpplinger's production is back on our theatre's repertoire.