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Release date: 03/23/2023
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Arabella
Deutsche Oper Berlin
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Music
Overview
At first glance, Hofmannsthal's libretto ARABELLA is a comedy of mistaken identity which, had it been composed by Rossini, could have been a snappy buffo opera. But the music of Richard Strauss, who pulls out all the stops of his orchestral art, from the late romantic intoxication to the most modern discord, creates a subtle, colorful panorama of a society in transition, whose late-bourgeois values ββare crumbling. One's own identity and interpersonal relationships have to be tested from scratch. Central is β even more than the title character, who oscillates between romance and rebellion β Arabella's younger sister Zdenka, who, disguised as a man by her parents for lack of money for girls' clothes befitting their status, has to struggle all the more desperately with her/his role as an outsider.