Name: Ariadne auf Naxos
Start: 2023-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Garsington Opera

Organization

Garsington Opera

Set designer

Giles Cadle

Licht ontwerper

Malcolm Rippeth

Zanger

Soprano

Natalya Romaniw

Ariadne

Tenor

Young Woo Kim

Bacchus

Jennifer France

Zerbinetta

Polly Leech

Der Komponist

Baritone

William Dazeley

Ein Musiklehrer

John Graham-Hall

Ein Tanzmeister

Nkululeko Masuku

Brighella

Bass

Ossian Huskinson

Truffaldin

Richard Pinkstone

Scaramuccio

Claire Lees

Najade

Mezzo-soprano

Siân Griffiths

Dryade

Harriet Eyley

Echo

Marcus Farnsworth

Harlekin

Spoken

Walter van Dyk

Der Haushofmeister

Choreograaf

Carmine De Amicis

Dirigent

Mark Wigglesworth

Regisseur

Bruno Ravella

Graham Clark

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Duits

Ariadne auf Naxos

Buckinghamshire

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Public

Engels

Approved

An opera of two halves? A comedy of two halves? Or both at once. That’s what is proposed by ‘the richest man in Vienna’, who has commissioned two entertainments, one from a serious opera composer and one from a troupe of comedians. When he discovers that sitting through both separately would delay the firework display he has planned, he gives orders for the two shows to be performed simultaneously on the same stage. The earnest young Composer is horrified while the pragmatic Zerbinetta is happy to give it a go.

As a result, the story of Ariadne, abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos and despairing of her lost love, is interrupted repeatedly by the comedians, keen to help and to advise her that the best way to cure a broken heart is to find another lover.

The dream team of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal came up with this eccentric idea after quite a few rewrites. The combination strikes at the heart of what music and drama mean with a lightness of touch and lustrously sumptuous music.

English

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Ensemble

Co-producent