MET Opera: Arabella

Music by Richard Strauss | Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

On November 22, 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.

Conductor: Nicholas Carter
Production: Otto Schenk
Costume Designer: Milena Canonero

Arabella: Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Zdenka: Louise Alder*
Matteo: Pavol Breslik
Mandryka: Tomasz Konieczny
Waldner: Brindley Sherratt