Plot
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
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Cast
Renée Fleming
Arabella
Thomas Hampson
Mandryka
Gabriela Beňačková
Adelaide
Albert Dohmen
Graf Waldner
Hanna Elizabeth Müller
Zdenka
Daniel Behle
Zdenka
Christian Thielemann
Conductor
Benjamin Bruns
Graf Elemer
Derek Welton
Graf Dominik
Steven Humes
Graf Lamoral
Daniela Fally
Fiakermilli
Jane Henschel
Kartenaufschlägerin
