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Elena Tsallagova as Zdenka and Robert Watson as Matteo © Thomas Aurin
2.110774 Filming date: 18 and 23 March 2023 Filming venue: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 and DTS-Surround 5.1 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Release date: 14 Feb 2025
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Richard STRAUSS (1864–1949) Arabella Lyric comedy in three acts, Op. 79, TrV 263 (1930–32) Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Part I of Tobias Kratzer’s Strauss triptych at the Deutsche Oper Berlin Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Sopranos Doris Soffel, Mezzo-soprano Robert Watson, Tenor • Russell Braun, Baritone Albert Pesendorfer, Bass Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Sir Donald Runnicles, Conductor Tobias Kratzer, Stage director
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Tobias Kratzer won a number of special prizes in 2008 including First Prize at the International Ring Award Competition in Graz. Since then, he has directed numerous productions including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Götterdämmerung (Bremen, Weimar and
Karlsruhe) nominated for Best Production of the Year on several occasions, and his production of The Csárdás Princess (Kálmán) received a nomination for The Austrian prize for musical theatre. In 2018, Die Deutsche Bühne named him Director of the Year and he also won the Faust Prize for Best Opera Director for his production of Götterdämmerung in Karlsruhe. In 2020, the international magazine Opernwelt named him Director of the Year, and his production of Tannhäuser Production of the Year. • Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles is the General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival (Jackson, Wyoming), as well as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He was recently named Conductor Emeritus of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, having served as its Chief Conductor from 2009 to 2016. Maestro Runnicles enjoys close and enduring relationships with several of the most significant opera companies and orchestras, and is especially celebrated for his interpretations of Romantic and post-Romantic symphonic and opera repertoire which are core to his musical identity.
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 off their daughter Arabella into a wealthy family. Strauss’s orchestral opulence coupled with its period Viennese setting has 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 Vienna to the present day.
Also available on Blu-ray video: NBD0182V Filming date: 18 and 23 March 2023 Filming venue: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo 2.0 and DTS-MA Surround 5.1 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean Region: A, B, C (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) Release date: 14 Feb 2025
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