“Der Rosenkavalier” in the State Opera: And the Faninal grumbles forever

It is one of the highlights in Adrian Eröd’s operatic repertoire, as he did in the second act of Rosenkavaliers as Edler von Faninal loses his composure. All the distinction that this nobility stage character displays in Theresian Vienna: she crumbles within seconds when her own daughter opposes her forced marriage and gives way to a tantrum: “Disgrace!!!”