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Mar 13, 1993 · The kind of pleasure provided by the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" on Thursday night was precisely the kind of pleasure the work is intended to give ...
Jun 2, 2023 · Ariadne auf Naxos ★★★★★ “Garsington’s terrific casting allows this fascinating new view of the piece to flourish” David Mellor, Mail on Sunday, 2 July “The director and conductor manifested their love of the piece so clearly, with the result that the difficulties were made light of and even turned to advantage in such a remarkable way”
Nov 24, 2023 · Ariadne auf Naxos is the fruit of the successful creative partnership between Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal who came up with this eccentric idea after quite a few rewrites. Part of the unique flavour of this, the second version, derives from Strauss's brilliant juxtaposition of low comedy and high tragedy.
Mar 17, 1987 · ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' counts now as a mainstream opera. But it achieved that status only after Richard Strauss and the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal subjected their 1912 original version to a ...
Feb 20, 2023 · Rodula Gaitanou’s production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos is a hugely entertaining treatment of an opera that brings its fair share of problems to any company, and the chief virtue of Opera North’s presentation (a co-production with Gothenburg Opera, now seen in the UK for the first time) is the wonderfully well suited casting ...
Mar 31, 2003 · By Anthony Tommasini. March 31, 2003. During the Metropolitan Opera's presentation of Strauss's ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' five years ago, the performances of Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay and Susanne ...
Jun 18, 2008 · LONDON The drama following the 2004 dismissal of the soprano Deborah Voigt from a production of Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden here had many elements ...
