Strauss's Arabella
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
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Strauss’s Arabella arrives in cinemas for the first time in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times) and captures the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna.
• Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms, with soprano Louise Alder as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. Nicholas Carter conducts Strauss’s charming score. • Strauss’s most exalted domains—his writing for the soprano voice and for the orchestra—are magnificently apparent throughout the score. |
