Arabella

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German lateRomantic orchestral operatic and lied master composer Richard Strauss 18641949 Arabella premiered 1933 Dresden was the last of the half dozen Strauss works to feature a libretto by the great Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal This production from the most recent Salzburg Easter Festival is after Capriccio the second of three Richard Strauss operas C Major is releasing in honor of the composers birth life and work The starladen cast includes soprano Renèe Fleming baritone Thomas Hampson Albert Dohmen Covent Garden Wiener Staatsoper MET and Gabriela Beaková 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 castespecially Renée Fleming with her luxurious soprano FAZ