Great article in this past weekend’s Seattle Times about Carol Vaness, who sings her first Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at Seattle Opera, starting this Saturday.
My favorite quote: "In this role, I can't maintain my slightly childish behavior," she says. "The Marschallin may be the kind of woman who appreciates a young lover, but she is all grown up. I've had to grow up, too."
Ah, the things we can learn from the characters we play…
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What an interesting interview, with a fascinating and talented singer, and, oh, the role of the Marschallin!
I've been noodling around with the role (and that '62 Schwartzkopf video) myself for a few months, and wonder, like Carol, about the absent husband aspect. Being a neglected wife, ugh!
I keep wondering, too, whether the fact that the Marschallin and der Feldmarschall have no children makes her relationship with Oktavian even more complex? From this standpoint, he's a sort of combination young energetic lover/ replacement son figure & so that makes the letting go all the more heartbreaking? Now she's *really* alone in the world.
Yikes, ACB! Look what happens to us when we bond with these opera characters!
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