Arabella at The Met

Por David Allen, 04 abril 2014

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Crítica hecha desde Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, Nueva York el 3 abril 2014

Strauss R., Arabella

Metropolitan Opera

Philippe Auguin, Dirección

Otto Schenk, Dirección de escena

Malin Byström, Arabella

Juliane Banse, Zdenka

Roberto Saccà, Matteo

Michael Volle, Mandryka

John Del Carlo, Count Waldner

Stephen Pickover, Dirección de escena

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David Allen

David is a PhD student at Columbia University, where he studies international history. A lapsed pianist and organist, he writes on concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, and blogs at Unpredictable Inevitability.

Otto Schenk's Arabella is dusted down at the Met