Organization

Conductor

Donald Runnicles

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Set designer

Rainer Sellmaier

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Stefan Woinke

Video designer

Jonas Dahl

Manuel Braun

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Dramaturge

Bettina Bartz

Singer

Bass

Albert Pesendorfer

Count Waldner

Mezzo-soprano

Doris Soffel

Adelaide

Soprano

Elena Tsallagova

Zdenka

Baritone

Russell Braun

Mandryka

Tenor

Robert Watson

Matteo

Thomas Blondelle

Count Elemer

Lexi Hutton

A fortune-teller

Kyle Miller

Count Dominik

Hye-Young Moon

The Fiakermilli

Gabriela Scherer

Arabella

Sara Jakubiak

Choreographer

Jeroen Verbruggen

Tyler Zimmerman

Count Lamoral

Spoken

Jörg Schörner

Welko

Michael Jamak

Djura

Robert Hebenstreit

Jankel

Thaisen Rusch

Hotel porter

Heiner Boßmeyer

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

German

Berlin

Germany

Arabella Strauss,R

Public

Private

English

Approved

At first glance, Hofmannsthal's libretto ARABELLA is a comedy of mistaken identity which, had it been composed by Rossini, could have been a snappy buffo opera. But the music of Richard Strauss, who pulls out all the stops of his orchestral art, from the late romantic intoxication to the most modern discord, creates a subtle, colorful panorama of a society in transition, whose late-bourgeois values ​​are crumbling. One's own identity and interpersonal relationships have to be tested from scratch. Central is – even more than the title character, who oscillates between romance and rebellion – Arabella's younger sister Zdenka, who, disguised as a man by her parents for lack of money for girls' clothes befitting their status, has to struggle all the more desperately with her/his role as an outsider.

For the director Tobias scratches and his team, the ambivalences of the characters up to the last quirky supporting character are a welcome source of inspiration to think about historical role models and modern identity. The detailed staging, in which the real plot is repeatedly contrasted, supplemented and commented on with cinematic virtuality, should give the viewer the opportunity to experience the musical richness with an often surprising change of perspective between private emotional chaos and social norms. With ARABELLA, Tobias Kratzer continues the collaboration with Sir Donald Runnicles, which began in 2019 with the acclaimed production of Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG.

Arabella by Strauss, From (2023/2023), Directed by Tobias Kratzer,, Conductor Donald Runnicles, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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