Organization

Garsington Opera

Set designer

Giles Cadle

Lighting designer

Malcolm Rippeth

Singer

Soprano

Natalya Romaniw

Ariadne

Tenor

Young Woo Kim

Bacchus

Jennifer France

Zerbinetta

Polly Leech

The composer

Baritone

William Dazeley

A music teacher

John Graham-Hall

The dance master

Nkululeko Masuku

Brighella

Bass

Ossian Huskinson

Truffaldin

Richard Pinkstone

Scaramuccio

Claire Lees

Naiad

Mezzo-soprano

Siân Griffiths

Dryad

Harriet Eyley

Echo

Marcus Farnsworth

Harlequin

Spoken

Walter van Dyk

The majordomo

Choreographer

Carmine De Amicis

Conductor

Mark Wigglesworth

Stage director

Bruno Ravella

Graham Clark

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

German

Ariadne auf Naxos -  (Ariadne on Naxos)

Buckinghamshire

United Kingdom

Ariadne auf Naxos

Public

Ariadne on Naxos

English

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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.

Ariadne on Naxos by Strauss, From (2023/2023), Directed by Bruno Ravella,, Conductor Mark Wigglesworth, Garsington Opera, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

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