Arabella

Overview

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orchestral, operatic and lied master composer, Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Arabella (premiered 1933, Dresden) was the last of the half dozen Strauss works to feature a libretto by the great Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal. This production, from the most recent Salzburg Easter Festival is, after Capriccio, the second of three Richard Strauss operas C Major is releasing in honor of the composers birth, life and work. The star-laden cast includes soprano Renèe Fleming, baritone Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen (Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, MET) and Gabriela Beaková (Wiener Staatsoper, Covent Garden). With Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden, the music of Richard Strauss is in the best of hands. (ORF) Thielemann gets the best out of the cast...especially Renée Fleming with her luxurious soprano FAZ

Cast

Renée Fleming

Arabella

Thomas Hampson

Mandryka

N/A

Gabriela Beňačková

Adelaide

Albert Dohmen

Graf Waldner

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Hanna Elizabeth Müller

Zdenka

Daniel Behle

Zdenka

Christian Thielemann

Conductor

Benjamin Bruns

Graf Elemer

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Derek Welton

Graf Dominik

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Steven Humes

Graf Lamoral

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Daniela Fally

Fiakermilli

Jane Henschel

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