How easily one thing grows into another,” sings abandoned Ariadne on her desert island before the advent of Bacchus quells ...

Glyndebourne made its annual trip to the BBC Proms with Laurent Pelly’s new production of Ariadne auf Naxos. This is ...

Laurent Pelly’s penetrating new production for Glyndebourne of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s 1912 oddity paints a vivid picture of the tortured process of creating an opera, the rivalries between artists ...

This production, direct from Glyndebourne, is a delight from start to finish, with laughter and glorious voices leading to a ...

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The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but there’s few insights in a work that should be moving as well as frothy and fun. Glyndebourne’s new productions ...

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 ...

Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” is an irresistible challenge for a director. This opera-within-an-opera cues up tedious bloviating about the nature of art directly alongside lowbrow slapstick.

Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos tells the story of a wealthy patron hosting an evening of opera in his home in 18th-century Vienna, but throwing things into ...

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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 ...