StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos (2013)
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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Soile Isokoski as Ariadne / Prima Donna |
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Kate Lindsey as Composer |
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Laura Claycomb as Zerbinetta |
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Sergei Skorokhodov as Bacchus / Tenor |
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Thomas Allen as Music Master |
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Dmitri Vargin as Harlekin |
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Ana Maria Labin as Naiade |
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Adriana Di Paola as Dryade |
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Gabriela Iştoc as Echo |
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Guy De Mey as Dancing Master |
| Sound | Vladimir Jurowski | Conductor |
