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Ariadne Auf Naxos

0% | Feb 25, 2012 | Music

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.

Featured Crew

Philippe Arlaud
Director
Brian Large
Director

Cast

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Renée Fleming
Ariadne/Prima Donna
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Eike Wilm Schulte
Musiklehrer
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Sophie Koch
Komponist
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Robert Dean Smith
Bacchus/The Tenor

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