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Ariadne Auf Naxos

Ariadne Auf Naxos

2012

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Categories:

  • Music

Overview:

Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the wealthiest man in Vienna, who has booked both a comedy burlesque act and a serious opera group for entertainment. When the dinner runs long he declares that both forms of entertainment must take place at the same time - much to the chagrin of the opera's proud young composer. Filmed live in Baden-Baden on Feb. 25 by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier triumph. Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden, the orchestra to whom Strauss dedicated his Alpine Symphony and which premiered Feuersnot, Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Daphne.

Philippe Arlaud

Director

Brian Large

Director

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Writer

Cast:

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  • Christian Thielemann

    Christian Thielemann

    Conductor
  • Renée Fleming

    Renée Fleming

    Ariadne/Prima Donna
  • Eike Wilm Schulte

    Eike Wilm Schulte

    Musiklehrer
  • Sophie Koch

    Sophie Koch

    Komponist
  • Robert Dean Smith

    Robert Dean Smith

    Bacchus/The Tenor
  • Jane Archibald

    Jane Archibald

    Zerbinetta