Time, nostalgia, and very fancy lesbians? It must be Der Rosenkavalier.
Writer, historian, and co-host of Bad Gays Ben Miller joins us for a discussion of Richard Strauss’s four-and-a-half hour work of where both nothing happens and everything happens.
Topics include: whether Rosenkavalier is a comedy or tragedy, the Viennese aristocracy, opera queens and mezzosexuals, the “German she-devil” who sued the Met (and won), and one of opera’s most problematic characters.
Full show notes page for Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, including a playlist, recommended recordings and reading, and a synopsis that doesn’t suck.
