Strauss: Arabella

Richard Strauss's lyric comedy Arabella portrays hardships and obsessions in a late bourgeois society with crumbling values. Gambling has driven the family of Cavalry Officer Waldner into financial ruin, and their only hope lies in marrying off their daughter Arabella into a wealthy family. Tobias Kratzer's production spotlights tensions that connect 19th-century Vienna to the present day.