Characters include the newly ennobled Herr von Faninal, Count Octavian Rofrano, Baron Ochs of Lerchenau, and the Princess von Werdenberg, or the Marschallin.  
Characters include the newly ennobled Herr von Faninal, Count Octavian Rofrano, Baron Ochs of Lerchenau, and the Princess von Werdenberg, or the Marschallin.  Set in the 1740s, with libretto by Hugo von Hormannsthal, it is the story of how Baron Ochs loses the young Sophie Faninal to the much younger Octavian.  For 10 points, name this 1911 opera composed by Richard Strauss.
Characters include the newly ennobled Herr von Faninal, Count Octavian Rofrano, Baron Ochs of Lerchenau, and the Princess von Werdenberg, or the Marschallin.  
Der Rosenkavalier or The Cavalier of the Rose