The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD - "Arabella"

Saturday, November 22, 2025 @ 1:00pm

Monmouth University - Pollak Theatre
400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Music by Richard Strauss | Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

On November 22, Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to Pollak Theatre in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.