Met Opera
In 1860 Vienna, the Waldner family faces financial ruin. Countess Adelaide hopes to marry her daughter Arabella to a wealthy suitor, while secretly raising her second daughter, Zdenka, as a boy to avoid societal costs.
But Zdenka loves Arabella’s admirer, and impersonates Arabella in letters to him. 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.
Music - Richard Strauss; Libretto - Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Conductor - Nicholas Carter. Sung in German with English subtitles.
220m inc 2 Intervals.
Tickets £21