Richard Strauss - Arabella - Warner Music Group Germany

"Glyndebourne Festival Opera"

Music: Richard Strauss
Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Director: John Cox
The London Philharmonic
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Designer: Julia Trevelyan Oman
Directed for video by John Vernon

Ashley Putnam
John Bröcheler
Gianna Rolandi
Regina Sarfathy
Artur Korn
Keith Lewis
Gwendolyn Bradley

With its romantic Viennese plot and its lush waltz-time melodies, the las collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal has often been labelled a second Rosenkavalier. Happily however, Arabella has been recognised as a masterpiece. The craft of detail that Strauss brought to this amorous comedy about the complications surrounding his heroine is betrothal to a rich landowner, benefits from careful staging, scrupulous preparation and intimacy, all qualities in which Glyndebourne has excelled since its beginnings in 1934.