StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos (2013)

StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos (2013)

2013-01-01 United Kingdom 0 Min. PG-13
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Overview

Glyndebourne's wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which low comedy and high tragedy compete for our attention, "borne aloft by Strauss's divine music and Hofmannsthal's visionary poetry". At the centre of this production from Katharina Thoma is the noble, tragic figure of the abandoned Ariadne herself, in a haunting performance from Soile Isokoski, 'with brilliant support from the pit' (The Independent).

Cast

Soile Isokoski is Ariadne / Prima Donna
Ariadne / Prima Donna
Kate Lindsey is Composer
Composer
Laura Claycomb is Zerbinetta
Zerbinetta
Sergei Skorokhodov is Bacchus / Tenor
Bacchus / Tenor
Thomas Allen is Music Master
Music Master
Dmitri Vargin is Harlekin
Guy De Mey is Dancing Master
Dancing Master