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DESCRIPTION:Apr 14-28\, 2026\nAs updated by Robert Carsen\, Arabella unfold
 s in the headiest days of the Third Reich\, circa 1938\, with lederhosen\,
  swastikas\, and Nazi salutes for ambiance. Why\, you may well ask. Richar
 d Strauss and his #1 librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal set this last of the
 ir collaborations in 1860s Vienna. But in 1933\, when the opera premiered\
 , the world was barreling towards apocalypse. Rather than indulge the crea
 tors’ nostalgia\, Carsen prefers to call it out. His production opened i
 n 2020 to a skeptical reception. The first revival two years later fared n
 o better. And we doubt that this season’s third round will be the charm.
  To look forward to\, however\, there’s the sensuous Strauss specialist 
 Diana Damrau in her role debut as the heroine—and that should be somethi
 ng. Arabella\, you’ll recall\, is the gambler’s daughter whose job is 
 to raise her family from not-so-genteel poverty by marrying very\, very we
 ll. She’s hard-headed\, in her way\, but a romantic\, too\, and her fate
 —poised on a knife edge between farce and fiasco—is strangely touching
 . Michael Volle is Mandryka\, the country squire who materializes at half 
 a minute to midnight to rescue Arabella. Erin Morley is the lunatic cross-
 dressing Zdenka\, who is desperate to fix her up with the unsuitable milit
 ary officer Matteo\, sung by Pavol Breslik.
LOCATION:Opernhaus Zürich\, Falkenstrasse 1\, 8001 Zürich\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:Arabella\, by Richard Strauss
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