Arabella

At first glance, Hofmannsthal's libretto ARABELLA is a comedy of mistaken identity which, had it been composed by Rossini, could have been a snappy buffo opera. But the music of Richard Strauss, who pulls out all the stops of his orchestral art, from the late romantic intoxication to the most modern discord, creates a subtle, colorful panorama of a society in transition, whose late-bourgeois values ​​are crumbling. One's own identity and interpersonal relationships have to be tested from scratch. Central is – even more than the title character, who oscillates between romance and rebellion – Arabella's younger sister Zdenka, who, disguised as a man by her parents for lack of money for girls' clothes befitting their status, has to struggle all the more desperately with her/his role as an outsider.

Cast

Sara Jakubiak Arabella Elena Tsallagova Zdenka

Albert Pesendorfer Graf Waldner

Doris Soffel Adelaide

Russell Braun Mandryka

Robert Watson Matteo

Thomas Blondelle Graf Elemer

Kyle Miller Graf Dominik

Tyler Zimmerman Graf Lamoral

Donald Runnicles Conductor

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