Ariadne auf
Naxos Jessye Norman heads the cast in a new production of Richard Strauss 's opera about putting on an opera. Because of time restrictions, a comic opera troupe and serious opera company have to perform simultaneously.
Their artistic compromise results, in fact, in high art, as you can hear in the opera-within-an-opera that follows the prologue. (soprano) (soprano) (soprano) (tenor) (baritone) (tenor)(bar) (tenor) (tenor)(soprano)(contralto)(soprano)(tenor)(bass) (bass)
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conductor Ion Marin
Prologue
7.15 The Metropolitan Opera Quiz
Listeners challenge three opera experts.
7.46 Opera
(EBU presentation in association with the Texaco Metropolitan
Opera International Radio Network)
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