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Arabella

CONDUCTOR Cornelius Meister
DIRECTOR Sven-Eric Bechtolf
STAGE Rolf Glittenberg
COSTUMES Marianne Glittenberg
 
Count Waldner Wolfgang Bankl
Arabella Camilla Nylund
Zdenka Christiane Karg
Mandryka Tomasz Konieczny
Matteo Michael Schade

Arabella, the beautiful daughter of Count Waldner, is coveted by many men: Three counts courting her and also the young officer Matteo is in love with her. His hopes are nurtured by his devoted Zdenka. She is the sister of Arabella, who, however, appears as a boy, because the Waldner family is unable to perform two daughters in Vienna befitting. Arabella, however, wants to wait for the right person and shows Zdenka from the window of a strange man, whom she had previously met in the street and has made a strong impression on her. This stranger is Mandryka. A letter from Waldner to his deceased uncle of the same name called him to Vienna. Waldner, burdened by debts, wrote to his rich friend and regimental comrades in Slavonia and enclosed a picture of Arabella. The young Mandryka and sole heir immediately fell in love with the picture and now stops at Waldner for Arabella's hand. Since he is the right person, she also gives him her word, but wants to say goodbye to her girlhood with a last dance during the Fiakerballs. To the desperate Matteo, Zdenka puts an envelope in which, as she tells him, is the key to Arabella's room, where she would expect him that night. Mandryka happens to witness this conversation and believes she is cheating on Arabella. She has since returned from the ball and meets Matteo in the hotel lobby, who thinks she has just held her in her room and does not understand that she is now so brittle. Mandryka, accompanied by Arabella's parents, appears to have convicted her of being unfaithful. But then Zdenka, as a girl recognizable, falls. She herself has received Matteo in the dark room and now wants to plunge into the Danube. The embarrassed Mandryka stops for Matteo's hand at Zdenka. And his luck is also sealed: Arabella forgives him and, in keeping with the custom of his homeland, hands him a glass of pure, clear water.

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