Der Rosenkavalier, Royal Opera, ROH, Covent Garden, December 2016
Posted on 18 December 2016The essence of Robert Carsen’s powerful new production is time. By setting it in the period of its creation, the early twentieth century rather than the mid-eighteenth, he compresses time, giving those glorious late nineteenth century waltz melodies and the story itself the feel of a world about to be changed forever, as indeed it …