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Strauss’s 'Arabella' staged by Tobias Kratzer

Strauss’s Arabella staged by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Sara Jakubiak in the title role.

Lyric comedy in three acts, Op. 79, TrV 263 (1930–32)
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Part I of Tobias Kratzer’s Strauss triptych at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

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.

Count Waldner ALBERT PESENDORFER Bass
Adelaide DORIS SOFFEL Mezzo-soprano
Arabella SARA JAKUBIAK Soprano
Zdenka ELENA TSALLAGOVA Soprano
Mandryka RUSSELL BRAUN Baritone
Matteo ROBERT WATSON Tenor

Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Conductor SIR DONALD RUNNICLES
Stage Director TOBIAS KRATZER
Set Designer RAINER SELLMAIER

Video Director GÖTZ FILENIUS
Filmed on 18 and 23 March 2023 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany
A production by Deutsche Oper Berlin and Naxos in association with rbb

2.110774 / NBD0182V
Total playing time: 160 minutes
Language: German · Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean
DVD: NTSC 16:9 · Dolby Digital 2.0 and DTS 5.1 · DVD 9 · Region: 0
BD: HD 16:9 · PCM Stereo and DTS Master Audio 5.1 · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C