Arabella

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Arabella (2014)

Directed by Brian Large, Florentine Klepper

Music · 2h 58m

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

Crew

Director
Brian Large, Florentine Klepper
Writer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Original Music Composer
Richard Strauss
Producer
Magdalena Herbst

Details

Release date
2014-06-17
Runtime
2h 58m
Genres
Music
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany
Production
C Major Entertainment, Unitel Classica, ORF, 3sat, Salzburger Festspiele