9 See Der Rosenkavalier

Metropolitan Opera, opens December 13.

Strauss’s intoxicating concoction of viennoiserie never gets stale, and Robert Carsen’s 2017 production scrapes away some of the whipped-cream décor and focuses attention where it belongs: on the characters. Simon Rattle conducts a cast that includes Camilla Nylund as the “aging” (i.e., 32-year-old) Marschallin and Magdalena Kozená as her boy lover Octavian. justin davidson