Word: hofmannstahl
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...story by Hugo von Hofmannstahl fits cunningly the music of Richard Strauss. Der Rosenkavalier has become for many one of the world's great operas, performed too infrequently in the U. S. The role of the Princess contains a most sad and beautiful aria on growing old which Frieda Hempel, Rosa Raisa and Florence Easton have often sung to notable effect. The role of Octavian is to be played by a woman, since the lover masquerades as a woman through much of the action, and is only 17 years old at best...
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