In the last act of Der Rosenkavalier, the Marschallin, trying to console Baron Ochs after the dinner-party fiasco has exposed him as an irresponsible philanderer, explains: “War eine wienerische Maskerad’ und weiter nichts.”[1] It is a phrase which one might be tempted to apply to Der Rosenkavalier as a whole, for the final version of...
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