Review: A Cozy ‘Arabella’ Returns to the Met Opera

The latest revival of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s final opera was a night of promising debuts and mixed ...
Observer

Opera Traditionalists Will Adore the Met’s Opulent 1980s ‘Arabella’

The Met eschews an edition sanctioned by Strauss that eliminates one intermission by joining the second and third acts, which ...
New York Classical Review

Met debutants light up a debutante’s story in Strauss’s “Arabella”

In her Met debut, coloratura soprano Julie Roset as the Fiakermilli sparkled her way through the ballroom act with delicate, ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: Strauss’s ARABELLA Has the Music and the Singers—and Old Vienna—at the Met

For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther ...
The Verde Independent

Met Live Opera season continues with ‘Arabella' Nov. 22 and 26

The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2025-2026 season, presented by ...
Post-Bulletin

Review: 'Arabella' was farewell to an era

Composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal produced an instant classic with "Der Rosenkavalier" in 1911. Twenty years later, they produced a bookend to "Rosenkavalier," and while ...