This inexpensive edition of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, one
of the greatest masterpieces in the operatic repertoire, is reprinted
directly from the definitive vocal score prepared by Otto Singer,
approved by Strauss, and published by Adolph Fürstner in 1911, the year
of the opera's Dresden premiere.
Der Rosenkavalier is the Bavarian composer's most popular operatic
work. In his operas, songs, and symphonic poems, the aesthetics of the
Romantic movement were to reach their ultimate expression. A radiant and
bittersweet celebration of love, the opera was Strauss's most successful
collaboration with the illustrious Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
and an immediate sensation.
The vocal score consists of the verbal text, the vocal parts, and a
reduction for piano of the full orchestral score of the opera, printed
in an easy-to-read format, with wide margins, large noteheads, and many
other helpful features. Moreover, this edition makes the score available
for far less than the cost of any comparable vocal score. Carefully
printed and sturdily bound, it will provide a lifetime of pleasurable
use by both professional and amateur singers in the study, practice, and
performance of the opera.