Der Rosenkavalier is a 1926 Austrian silent film of the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss (music) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (libretto).
Hofmannsthal considerably changed the storyline for the film version (which included a final scene in the formal gardens behind the Field Marshal's residence) and Strauss' score included music not only from the opera but also sections of his Couperin Suite and a march for the Field Marshal, who appears in this version.
Strauss conducted the Vienna and London premieres (and recorded excerpts from the film score on the Victrola label at that time.
A planned tour of the United States in 1927 by Strauss and his orchestra failed to go ahead because of the emergence of sound films.
The audience at Yale included the famed Strauss soprano Maria Jeritza, who was living in New Jersey at the time.