The Metropolitan Opera: Arabella

Release Date: 2025-11-22

Overview: Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.

Rating: 9 / 10

Cast

Rachel Willis-Sørensen

as Arabella

Tomasz Konieczny

as Mandryka

Louise Alder

as Zdenka

Pavol Breslik

as Matteo

Karen Cargill

as Countess Adelaide Waldner