The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
Plot: This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors

Renée Fleming
Susan Graham
Kristinn Sigmundsson
Christine Schäfer
Thomas Allen
Plácido Domingo
Wendy White
Bernard Fitch
James Courtney
Eric Cutler
Jeremy Galyon
Barbara Willis Sweete
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Molière
Jay David Saks
Mia Bongiovanni
Elena Park
Peter Gelb
Richard Strauss