Ariadne auf Naxos For all its frivolity and ebullience-which is the aspect of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos that Seattle Opera is selling the hardest for its upcoming production-it cost its ...

Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” is an irresistible challenge for a director. This opera-within-an-opera cues up tedious bloviating about the nature of art directly alongside lowbrow slapstick.

You might call it glorious chaos. “Ariadne auf Naxos” rides again at Seattle Opera, in a remount of the company’s triumphant 2004 production of the Strauss classic. With a mostly new cast capering ...

When Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal premiered the work in 1912, the Prologue didn’t yet exist. Instead, an abridged version of Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was followed by the ...

Richard Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos" is like a summit meeting between the comic and serious muses, in which the two goddesses are compelled to shake hands and get along. The superb production by West ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Met Opera’s Live in HD production of “Ariadne auf Naxos” will be ...

Ariadne, which Strauss wrote in tandem with his most celebrated collaborator, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, consists of an extended prologue followed by a one act opera. Within the prologue Strauss lays bare ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On July 28, 2018, Santa Fe Opera presented Richard Strauss's comedy ARIADNE ...

The conflict between high and low art is nowhere more elegantly treated than in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. In Christof Loy’s 2002 production, revived at Covent Garden, the tussle between the diva ...