Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228a

Composer: Strauss, Richard

Librettist/Text Author: Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Conductor: Thielemann, Christian

Orchestra: Dresden Staatskapelle

A Music Teacher: Schulte, Eike Wilm

A Wigmaker: Jerusalem, David

An Officer: Ventow, Michael

Ariadne: Fleming, Renee

Bacchus: Smith, Robert

Brighella: Conners, Kevin

Dryad: Frenkel, Rachel

Echo: Ruiten, Lenneke

Harlequin: Borchev, Nikolay

Lackey: Grubner, Roman

Naiad: Landshamer, Christina

Primadonna: Fleming, Renee

Scaramuccio: Roberson, Kenneth

The Composer: Koch, Sophie

The Dancing Master: Baumgartel, Christian

The Major-Domo: Kollo, Rene

The Tenor: Smith, Robert

Truffaldin: Humes, Steven

Zerbinetta: Archibald, Jane

Stage Director: Arlaud, Philippe

Television Director: Large, Brian

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Venue: Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Playing Time: 02:15:48

Catalogue Number: A05018756

Synopsis

Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228a

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The proven Richard Strauss trio of Renee Fleming, Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann gets together once again at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, which continues its series of triumphs after Rosenkavalier. In this colorful and humorous staging by Philippe Arlaud, Strauss specialist Thielemann leads his first opera at the head of the Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, which performed the world premieres of nine Strauss operas. While Renee Fleming dazzles in her role debut as the spurned Ariadne, Sophie Koch, Robert Dean Smith and Jane Archibald prove themselves worthy counterparts of the American soprano. (616 Zeichen)