About the opera
- Run time: 3hrs 00min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: German
- Subtitles: English, German and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Strauss saw Arabella as "a second Rosenkavalier", a light romantic opera set in early Vienna, and marked by the uplifting tempos of the waltz. Vocal parts offer strong and gratifying roles for virtuoso singers, and the theme of love at first sight triggers gorgeous music.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Creators
Born in Munich into a family of musicians, Richard Strauss (1864–1949) began his musical studies at the age of four, began composition studies aged 11 and in 1883 became a protégé of the conductor Hans von Bülow, who encouraged him to study the music of Wagner. Strauss’s early masterpieces include several orchestral tone poems and many songs. Around the end of the 19th century, Strauss turned his attention to opera.
Arabella was the last collaboration of Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929). Hofmannsthal created “a comic opera, almost an operetta”, which related to the Rosenkavalier, without being an imitation. Hofmannsthal died under tragic circumstances before the work was completed.
Conductor Christian Thielemann
Graf Waldner Wolfgang Bankl
Adelaide Margaret Plummer
Arabella Camilla Nylund
Zdenka Sabine Devieilhe
Mandryka Michael Volle
Matteo Michael Laurenz
