StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos
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).
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Cast
- Soile Isokoski Ariadne / Prima Donna
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Kate Lindsey Composer -
Laura Claycomb Zerbinetta - Sergei Skorokhodov Bacchus / Tenor
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Thomas Allen Music Master - Dmitri Vargin Harlekin
- Ana Maria Labin Naiade
- Adriana Di Paola Dryade
- Gabriela Iştoc Echo
- Guy De Mey Dancing Master
Make it a double feature
StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos
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