Ariadne auf Naxos is a bold choice to open this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival. An opera that can be a challenge for audiences more used to Verdi or Puccini, it’s a tricky work – top-notch ...

Natalya Romaniw’s Ariadne shines in an unfussy production that is, at its best, breathtakingly effective and beautiful Bruno Ravella has become director of choice for Strauss at Garsington Opera, it ...

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The richest man in Vienna wants to pamper the guests of a Soiree in his palace by an especially generous offer: first a sumptuous meal, then the premiere of the new Opera "Ariadne auf Naxos", on a ...

Ariadne, which Strauss wrote in tandem with his most celebrated collaborator, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, consists of an extended prologue followed by a one act opera. Within the prologue Strauss lays bare ...

Part spoken play, part tragedy, part commedia dell’arte, Ariadne is 100 percent meta-opera. From the outset, place and time are established so firmly – wartime Glyndebourne – that it takes a few ...

“This is an opera about everything,” director Ido Ricklin says. "“It’s about love and loneliness, idealism and self-interest – and it’s at the same time about art and life itself." Onstage: Dionysus ...

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program will present ARIADNE AUF NAXOS as part of its 2026 season, marking the penultimate production in the organization’s summer festival. Composed by Richard Strauss, ...

It felt true and poignant and innovative then. That it doesn’t this time around is largely due to Karita Mattila's Ariadne. She gives her passionate all, in great if sometimes gauzy gusts of prima ...