James M. Keller On Saturday night, Santa Fe Opera unveiled the last of the five new productions that make up its 56th season: Richard Strauss’ Arabella, in which an unlikely operetta plot sits ...

3 Joan Baez To Join SWEET RELIEF Benefit Concert Honoring Taj Mahal In San Francisco A romantic comedy of errors about a young woman who wishes to marry for love rather than money, Arabella is set ...

Richard Strauss may have been the most significant composer of the 20th century’s first half, but his music often sounds as if he were looking backward and forward at the same time. He was part ...

In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly discuss Arabella, the last of Strauss’ six collaborations with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Listen to the Met Opera ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera 3 Review: SAMSON ET DALILA, Royal Ballet And Opera The run will feature Rachel Willis-Sørensen in her role debut as ...

It’s the story of a once-prosperous family on the edge of ruin and a rich bumpkin from the sticks. What brings them together is the somewhat improbable love between the bumptious Mandryka and Arabella ...

Evan LeRoy Johnson, Julie Roset, Ben Brady and Ricardo José Rivera as Count Elemer, Fiakermilli, Count Lamoral and Count Dominick. Photo: Marty Sohl/Met Opera In the first act, Strauss, who relished ...

San Francisco Opera, which just unveiled a new production of “Tosca” —one of the most frequent works in its repertoire — is about to reach into the vault of much rarer treasures. It has been years ...