Word: octavians
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...curtain goes up on her regal bed chamber, horns sound exuberantly and woodwinds whisper racy innuendoes. The fun begins. A youth, Octavian, has spent the night with the Marschallin. Trapped there in the early morning, he hastily dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing...
...perfumed story, fit for an opera. After a night of pleasure, the young Count Octavian and the Princess von Werdenberg were interrupted in the boudoir of the Princess by a visit from her loutish cousin, Ochs von Lerchenau. To avoid detection, the Count Octavian quickly put on the clothes of a maid servant and listened to the plans of the preposterous Ochs, who wished a cavalier to go for him to his supposed fiancee, Sophie von Faminal, and present her with a silver rose to indicate his matrimonial intentions. The embassy was entrusted to the Count Octavian...
...Princess might have anticipated, Octavian found the young Sophie more alluring than herself, and immediately set about detaching Sophie's affection from the fat and lecherous Ochs. This was done in an instant, and it was next necessary for the count to employ strategies in order to prevent the degrading marriage which Ochs intended. There was room at the inn to which Ochs abducted the maid (Octavian), whom he had ogled in the boudoir of the Princess. Octavian played tricks on Ochs. The police, Sophie's father, the Princess arrived, but none of them stayed the course of young love...
...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...
...repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...