Arabella – The Metropolitan Opera
Dylan Evans’ revival of Otto Schenk’s masterpiece brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th Century Vienna back to the Met with Strauss’ elegant romantic lyric comedy in three acts.
Count Waldner (Brindley Sherratt) and his wife, Countess Adelaide Waldner (Karen Cargill) have fallen on hard times, much because of his love of gambling and her loftier aspirations, although a fortune teller (Eve Gigliotti) suggests things may be about to change by marrying their eldest daughter into money.
Unable to afford the expense of marrying off two daughters, the younger one, Zdenka (Louis Alder) has been brought up as a boy, and whilst older sister Arabella (Rachel Willis- Sørensen) is much admired, it in fact Zdenka who has fallen in love with one of her rejected suitors, Matteo (Pavol Breslik)...