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Great Performances at the Met: Arabella
Strauss’ romance brings the glamour of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a production by legendary Otto Schenk. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as Arabella, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Soprano Louise Alder makes her Met debut as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.
TRANSCRIPT
♪♪ In this Richard Strauss comic opera, it's a tale of two sisters.
Every man in town loves Arabella, but not her sister, because her sister was raised as a boy.
♪♪ And now he — she's fallen for a lieutenant who only wants him.
♪ Arabella ♪ And Arabella is waiting for her own Mr.
Right.
Just for fun, look for “Arabella” ♪ Arabella ♪ on Great Performances at the Met.
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