StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos

Overview

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

Kate Lindsey

Composer

Laura Claycomb

Zerbinetta

Sergei Skorokhodov

Bacchus / Tenor

Thomas Allen

Music Master

Dmitri Vargin

Harlekin

Ana Maria Labin

Naiade

Adriana Di Paola

Dryade

Gabriela Iştoc

Echo

Guy De Mey

Dancing Master