Top review. A truly excellent performance. Richard Strauss' music may take some getting used to at first, but I have always found it so sublime and thought-provoking. This production is gorgeous, with exquisite costume and set design, and the fact the DVD is as excellent as it is with such clarity in the sound and picture quality makes it even more so. Strauss' score is one of his most gentile, and the orchestral playing has such power and beauty.
Christian Thielmann's conducting is appropriately sensitive. Staging is also wonderful, especially in the act three duet between Arabella and Mandryka, which is the personification of perfection really. This Arabella has superb performances throughout. Perhaps not the definitive interpretations, for example I think Lisa Della Casa is the ultimate Arabella and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for Mandryka, but they didn't need to be to make an impression.
And an impression they did. Kiri TeKanawa, looking radiant and younger than her 50 years, is simply wonderful, exuding an intelligently used voice and a youthful yet mature stage presence. Wolfgang Brendel makes his character debut as Mandryka, and is every bit as good. Libretto derived from Alexander Puskhin's play of the same name. First performance: 7 December in Moscow. Ariadne auf Naxos , Oper with a prologue and one act.
Music composed by Richard Strauss. Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Modest Mussorgsky, composer. Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — La Gioconda , dramma lirico in four acts. Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli — Don Carlo , an opera in four acts. Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , a melodramma in three acts. Count Waldner banks on being able to clarify the misunderstanding immediately and to find out what has happened from Arabella herself at the hotel.
Act Three Arabella returns from the ball in the early hours of the morning. She encounters Matteo, who is stunned to see her in the hotel foyer — having been lying in her arms only a few moments ago. For her part, Arabella understands neither his behaviour nor his suggestive remarks — a heated argument ensues. Although Arabella is unaware of any wrongdoing, all the evidence appears to be unequivocally against her. The situation escalates, and there is almost a duel.
Only when Zdenka rushes in and reveals herself to be a woman is the misunderstanding clarified. Arabella retires to her room. In despair, Mandryka believes that he has lost her for ever. However, to his astonishment, she returns and hands him a glass of water, as is the custom in his village. Fabio Luisi hails from Genoa. Zudem wirkte er u.
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Seit arbeitet er mit Robert Carsen zusammen. Darunter sind Richard III. Geplant ist u. Geplant sind zudem u. Im Konzert trat sie u. Opern und Konzert sind ihre Schwerpunkte, daneben nehmen Lied und Oratorium einen wichtigen Platz in ihrem Schaffen ein. Stephanie Houtzeel, amerikanische Mezzosopranistin, wurde in Kassel geboren und wuchs in Boston auf. Sie war u. In dieser Spielzeit ist sie in Mannheim u.
In dieser Spielzeit war sie u. Geplant sind u. Weitere Rollen waren u. In der vergangenen Saison sang sie u. Daran schloss er ein Gesangsstudium bei James Wagner an. Sein Repertoire umfasst Werke vom Barock bis hin zu Kompositionen des Er gibt Liederabende u. The theme of metamorphosis, so dear to Hofmannsthal, underlies the nostalgia-tinged libretto.
Count Waldner, an unrepentant gambler, has brought his family to ruin. His only hope is to find a wealthy husband for his daughter Arabella, while his second daughter, Zdenka, must stay disguised as a boy so as not to cause her parents to incur unreasonable expenses.
The situation, made more complex by the cross-dressing, ends happily. The two girls are able to metamorphose into women in love, to escape the pretence of a corrupt and decadent society. Their only hope is to find a wealthy match for their older daughter, the ravishing Arabella soprano.
A fortune teller assures Adelaide that her older daughter will marry a stranger from far away. Zdenka soprano , the younger sister, is dressed as a boy to avoid having to provide a dowry for her.
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