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Date of Production: 03-2023

Venue: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Playing Time: 02:39:51

Catalogue Number: 2.110774

UPC: 747313577453

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Richard Strauss's Arabella is a lyric comedy that portrays hardships and obsessions in a society whose late-bourgeois values are crumbling. An addiction to gambling has driven the family of cavalry officer Waldner into financial ruin, and their only hope for salvation lies in marrying of their daughter Arabella into a wealthy family. Strauss's orchestral opulence couples with its period Viennese setting as seen Arabella perceived as a light-hearted comedy of errors, but Tobias Kratzer's multi-faceted production also explores the disunity between its characters, spotlighting tensions that connect 19th-century to the present day.