Ariadne Auf Naxos

Ariadne Auf Naxos

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  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 25, 2012

Runtime

2h 15m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Production Companies

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Unitel Classica, 3sat, ZDF, Decca

Director

Brian Large

Description

Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the wealthiest man in Vienna, who has booked both a comedy burlesque act and a serious opera group for entertainment. When the dinner runs long he declares that both forms of entertainment must take place at the same time - much to the chagrin of the opera's proud young composer. Filmed live in Baden-Baden on Feb. 25 by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier triumph. Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden, the orchestra to whom Strauss dedicated his Alpine Symphony and which premiered Feuersnot, Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Daphne.