Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera
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Actor: David Kuebler, Helga Dernesch, Kiri Te Kanawa, Marie McLaughlin, Wolfgang BrendelDirector: Brian Large
Writer: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera
Movie Review: Great Show
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful production, superbly directed, sung, acted and filmed. One might nit pick here and there but I'm not a nit picker. Everyone is so perfect in their individual roles, so rightly cast.The acting all around is terrific and just as rich in close ups as from a distance. This is very demanding vocal music that requires extraodinary abilities of the supporting players and they all deliver no matter how small the role. Gorgeously costumed and set in the 1860's, the ladies gowns can be somewhat cumbersome. A rare opera where no one dies although a duel is barely avoided a happy ending ensues joyfully expressed by Mandryka's ecstatic skips as the final curtain descends. Only the very difficult will be disappointed but for those of us who don't know too much, it's a pleasure. Very highly recommended.
Summary of Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera
Cast list Kiri Te Kanawa: Arabella
Wolfgang Brendel: Mandryka
Marie McLaughlin: Zdenka
David Kuebler: Matteo
Helga Dernesch: Adelaide
Donald McIntyre: Count Waldner
Charles Workman: Count Elemer
Kim Josephson: Count Dominik
Julien Robbins: Cound Lamoral
Natalie Dessay: The Fiakermilli
Jane Shaulis: A fortuneteller
Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Christian Thielemann, conductor
Criticizing Richard Strauss for composing melodically enduring operas is as pointless as lambasting Vermeer for painting only exquisite interior scenes. Those who say Strauss never improved on Rosenkavalier may be right, but when such beguiling sounds kept coming from his music for the next 30 years of his life, there shouldn't be any quibbles.
Arabella follows a woman who cannot make up her mind on a suitor and, like most Strauss operas, ends with a meltingly lovely duet. Taped at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1994 under the baton of conductor Christian Thielemann, this production features Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role; her acting is mediocre, but vocally she never forces anything and at least sounds like the perfect Arabella. Wolfgang Brendel does well with Mandryka, who finally ends up with Arabella, and Marie McLaughlin as Zdenka makes a sympathetic younger sister to the heroine. Otto Schenk's production is sturdily conservative, the video transfer is acceptable if unspectacular, and the sound mix is CD-quality. --Kevin Filipski
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