The Metropolitan Opera: Arabella

Overview

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.

Directed by Otto Schenk, Gary Halvorson

Top cast

R

Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Arabella

Tomasz Konieczny

Mandryka

L

Louise Alder

Zdenka

Pavol Breslik

Matteo

Karen Cargill

Countess Adelaide Waldner

Brindley Sherratt

Count Waldner

E

Eve Gigliotti

Fortune Teller

E

Evan LeRoy Johnson

Count Elemer

R

Ricardo José Rivera

Count Dominik

B

Ben Brady

Count Lamoral

M

Marc Persing

Welko

C

Craig Montgomery

Djura

T

Timothy Breese Miller

Jankel

S

Scott Scully

Waiter

J

Julie Roset

Fiakermilli

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