This is a list of recordings of Arabella, a three-act opera by Richard Strauss with a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was first performed on 1 July 1933, at the Dresden Sächsisches Staatstheater. The music critic Richard Lawrence compared 10 audio and 3 video recordings in the December 2021 issue of Gramophone. He favored the 1957 Vienna audio recording with Lisa Della Casa in the title role (partly because it is uncut) and the 1977 Vienna film with Gundula Janowitz, both conducted by Georg Solti.Richard Lawrence, "The Gramophone Collection: Strauss's Arabella", Gramophone, December 2021, pp. 126–131.
Audio recordings YearCast(Arabella, Zdenka,Mandryka)Conductor,Opera house and orchestraLabel Recordings of Arabella on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk1942Viorica UrsuleacTrude EipperleHans ReinmarClemens KraussSalzburg FestivalCD: Opera DepotCat: OD 11496-21947Maria ReiningLisa della CasaHans HotterKarl BöhmVienna Philharmonic orchestra and chorusCD: DGCat: 445 342-21953Lisa della CasaElfride TrötschelHermann UhdeRudolf KempeBavarian State Opera orchestra and chorus(recorded at Royal Opera House on 21 Sept)CD: TestamentCat: SBT2 1367 1955Eleanor SteberHilde GüdenGeorge LondonRudolf KempeMetropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus(recorded on 26 February; sung in English)CD: AndromedaCat: ANDRCD 5013 1957Lisa della CasaHilde GüdenGeorge LondonGeorg SoltiVienna Philharmonic orchestra and chorusCD: DeccaCat: 478 14001958Lisa della CasaAnneliese RothenbergerJoseph KeilberthVienna Philharmonic orchestra and chorusCD: OrfeoCat: C651053D1963Lisa della CasaAnneliese RothenbergerDietrich Fischer-DieskauJoseph KeilberthBavarian State Opera orchestra and chorusCD: DGCat: 477 5625 1977Julia VaradyEdith MathisDietrich Fischer-DieskauWolfgang SawallischBavarian State Opera orchestra and chorusCD: Golden MelodramCat: 3.0046-21981Julia VaradyHelen DonathDietrich Fischer-DieskauWolfgang SawallischBavarian State Opera orchestra and chorusCD: OrfeoCat: C169882H1986Kiri te KanawaGabriele FontanaFranz GrundheberJeffrey TateRoyal Opera House orchestra and chorusCD: DeccaCat: 417 623-22015Jacquelyn WagnerAgneta Eichenholz,James RutherfordMarc AlbrechtNetherlands Philharmonic OrchestraCD: Challenge ClassicsCat: 72686
Video recordings YearCast(Arabella,Zdenka,Adelaide,Fiakermilli,Matteo,Mandryka,Count Waldner)Conductor,Opera house and orchestra(Production details)Label1977Gundula Janowitz,Sona Ghazarian,Margarita Lilowa,Edita Gruberova,René Kollo,Bernd Weikl,Georg Solti,Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna State Opera Chorus(Director: Otto Schenk, lip-synched film of 1977 Vienna productionArthur Lintgen, Review of the 1977 Vienna and 2007 Zurich videos, Fanfare, November/December 2008.)DVD: Decca/Unitel1977 film of Vienna production, operadis; Decca DVD (2008): ; Review by Robert McKechnie, Music Web International. Review by Charles Osborne, Opera, January 1993, pp. 120–121.Cat: B0011WMWX41984Ashley Putnam,Gianna Rolandi,Regina Sarfaty,Gwendolyn Bradley,Keith Lewis,John Bröcheler,Bernard Haitink,Glyndebourne Festival Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus(Staging: John Cox; recorded live, 22 August, Glyndebourne)DVD:Warner Music VisionRodney Milnes, Review of 1984 Glyndebourne video, Opera, February 2006, pp. 232–234; Review by Ian Lace, Music Web International.Cat: 0630-16912-21994Kiri te Kanawa,Marie McLaughlin,Helga Dernesch,Natalie Dessay,David Kuebler,Wolfgang Brendel,Donald McIntyreChristian Thielemann,Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus(Production: Otto Schenk; recorded live, 3 November 1994)DVD: DGGCat: 073 005-9Streaming video:Met Opera on DemandArabella, 3 November 1994, Met Opera on Demand; CID: 318370, Met Opera Archives DB.2007Renée Fleming,Julia Kleiter,Cornelia Kallisch,Sen Guo,Johan Weigel,,Alfred MuffFranz Welser-Möst,Zürich Opera House Orchestra & Chorus(Director: Götz Friedrich; recorded live, June 2007)DVD: DeccaCat: 074 3263Cat: 113802012Emily Magee,Genia Kühmeier,,Daniela Fally,Michael Schade,Tomasz Konieczny,Franz Welser-Möst,Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus(Stage director: ; recorded live, 6 & 9 May 2012)Blu-ray/DVD:Electric PictureGuy Rickards, "Bechtolf’s 2006 Arabella on screen from Vienna", Gramophone, January 2013, p. 81.Cat: EPC04BD/EPC03DVD2014Renée Fleming,Hanna-Elisabeth Müller,Gabriela Beňačková,Daniela Fally,Daniel Behle,Thomas Hampson,Albert DohmenChristian Thielemann,Salzburg Easter Festival, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor(Stage director: Florentine Klepper; recorded live, April 2014, Großes Festspielhaus)Full HD:Unitel ClassicaBlu-ray:C Major2014 Salzburg production streaming video: Carnegie Hall+; Prime Video; medici.tv. Blu-ray: ; . Review by Paul Corfield Godfrey, Music Web International.2023,Elena Tsallagova,Doris Soffel,Hye-Young Moon,Robert Watson,Russell Braun,Donald Runnicles,Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra & Chorus(Stage director: Tobias Kratzer; recorded live, 18 & 23 March 2023)NaxosHugo Shirley, Review of 2023 Deutsche Oper video, Gramophone, August 2025, p. 87; Review by Stephan Barber, Music Web International.Streaming video:medici.tv2023 Deutsche Oper streaming video: medici.tv.2025Rachel Willis-Sørensen,Louise Alder,Karen Cargill,Julie Roset,,Tomasz Konieczny,Brindley SherrattNicholas Carter,Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus(Production: Otto Schenk; recorded live, 22 November 2025)HD video:Met Opera on DemandArabella, 22 November 2025, Met Opera on Demand; CID: 387844, Met Opera Archives DB.
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