Strauss: Arabella (DVD) – Albert Pesendorfer, Sara Jakubiak
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Strauss: Arabella (DVD) – Albert Pesendorfer, Sara Jakubiak
Composer: Richard Strauss
Artists: Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Chorus & Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Director: Tobias Kratzer
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 / DTS-Surround 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: German
Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Naxos
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Run Time: 160 minutes
Richard Strauss’s Arabella is a lyric comedy that portrays hardships and obsessions in a society whose late bourgeois values are crumbling. An addiction to gambling has driven the family of cavalry officer Waldner into financial ruin, and their only hope for salvation lies in marrying off their daughter Arabella into a wealthy family.
Strauss’s orchestral opulence, coupled with its period Viennese setting, has seen Arabella perceived as a light-hearted comedy of errors, but Tobias Kratzer’s multi-faceted production also explores the disunity between its characters, spotlighting tensions that connect 19th-century Vienna to the present day.
History
Richard Strauss’s Arabella
The final collaboration of Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, first seen in 1933, is a touching and nostalgic love story set in mid-19th-century Vienna. Hofmannsthal’s untimely death put a premature end to one of the greatest composer–librettist partnerships in operatic history.
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