GENRE: Opera
STARRING: Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Louise Alder, Julie Roset, Karen Cargill, Pavol Beslijk, Tomasz Konieczny, Brindley Sherratt
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Carter
PRODUCER(S): Richard Strauss
WRITER(S): Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Compelling soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Soprano Louise Alder makes her Met debut as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.