Opera News, the most renowned US-magazine for vocal art, recently praised Kristine Kaiser as “full-voiced, elegant Mozartean”. She combines her appearances as Donna Anna within the Vienna new-production of Don Giovanni this autumn with her role-debut as Richard Strauss’ Arabella at the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn. Mozart and Strauss – the summit of rank for velvet soprano voices, the precious combination of the great legendary predecessors.

It already generates an outstanding challenge to immerge into Achim Freyer’s magic picturesque world while creating the difficult role of the desired, here also desiring Donna Anna. The approach to Arabella’s noble contemplation within the same period means an even stronger contrast and a certainly unusual pairing. In Vienna Josef Wagner as Don Giovanni is the centre of lust, in Tallinn Morten Frank Larsen as Mandryka “the right” partner for Arabella’s future life.  Vienna sees the Dutch Jac van Steen at the conductor’s desk, Tallinn the Estonian Vello Pähn.