San Francisco Opera’s staging of Strauss’ “Arabella,” only the third time in its history, opened Tuesday evening in a charming, welcome production as new to the War Memorial Opera House as its ...

James M. Keller On Saturday night, Santa Fe Opera unveiled the last of the five new productions that make up its 56th season: Richard Strauss’ Arabella, in which an unlikely operetta plot sits ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The capstone of the artistic partnership between Strauss and librettist Hugo von ...

San Francisco Opera, which last week unveiled a new production of “Tosca,” one of the most frequent works in its repertoire, is about to reach into the vault of much rarer treasures. It has been years ...

In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly discuss Arabella, the last of Strauss’ six collaborations with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Listen to the Met Opera ...

The last collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella is, on first reading, a light piece with elements of operetta. It is, however, marked by personal ...

Opera plots turn on some pretty fanciful actions, but none is more fanciful than the sight of Arabella delivering a glass of water to the man of her dreams over music suggestive, at the very least, of ...

A tale of romantic idealism and moral bankruptcy, Arabella hinges on the market value of a beautiful face. Set in a single evening, the opera follows the efforts of the profligate Count Waldner to ...