Title: Richard Strauss: "Arabella"
Original title: Richard Strauss: Arabella
Release year: 2014
Genre: opera
Director: Florentine Klepper
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Cast: Renée Fleming (Arabella), Thomas Hampson (Mandryka), Albert Dohmen, Gabriela Beňačková (Adelaide), Albert Dohmen (Waldner), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Zdenka), Daniel Behle (Matteo), Derek Welton (Dominik), Benjamin Bruns (Elemer), Steven Humes (Lamoral), Daniela Fally (Fiakermilli), Jane Henschel (Kartenaufschlägerin); Staatskapelle Dresden; Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
Description:
2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday of the German late-Romantic orchestral, operatic and lied master composer, Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Arabella (premiered 1933, Dresden) was Hugo von Hofmannsthal. This production, from the most recent Salzburg Easter Festival is, after the Capriccio, the second of the three. Strauss operas C Major is releasing in honor of the composer's birth, life and work. The star-laden cast includes soprano Renèe Fleming, baritone Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen (Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, MET) and Gabriela Benacková (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
Recorded live at the Salzburg Easter Festival, 2014.
Issued: United States | C MAJOR
Duration: 2:48:40