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02/06/2016

Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos

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Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Karita Mattila

Penny Gore presents a performance of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Karita Mattila as Ariadne and Roberto Sacca as Bacchus.

Penny Gore presents today's opera matinée: a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.

Karita Mattila stars in one of Strauss's great soprano roles as the Prima Donna who appears later as Ariadne and Roberto Sacca is the Tenor, later Bacchus, in this often funny work, which sets a libretto by Strauss's greatest collaborator, Hugo von Hoffmansthal. The work was originally intended as a short divertissement to be performed after Hoffmansthal's version of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, but was revised as an opera in a prologue and one act. Antonio Pappano conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra in Christof Loy's production from 2014.


Ariadne auf Naxos:

The prima donna/Ariadne ..... Karita Mattila (soprano)
The tenor/Bacchus ..... Roberto Saccà (tenor)
Zerbinetta ..... Jane Archibald (soprano)
The composer ..... Ruzandra Donose (mezzo-soprano)
Comedian/Harlequin ...... Markus Werba (baritone)
A music master ..... Thomas Allen (baritone)
A dancing master ..... Ed Lyon (tenor)
A wigmaker ..... Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
A lackey ..... Jihoon Kim (bass)
Comedian/Scaramuccio ..... Wynne Evans (tenor)
Comedian/Brighella ..... Paul Schweinester (tenor)
Comedian/Truffaldino ..... Jeremy White (bass)
An officer ..... David Butt Philip (tenor) 
The major domo ..... Christoph Quest (speaker)
Singer/Naiad ..... Sofia Fomina (soprano)
Singer/Dryad ..... Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Singer/Echo ..... Kiandra Howarth (soprano)

The Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano (conductor).

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