Part spoken play, part tragedy, part commedia dell’arte, Ariadne is 100 percent meta-opera. From the outset, place and time are established so firmly – wartime Glyndebourne – that it takes a few ...

Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from her planned role debut in Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Vienna State Opera and been replaced by Lise Davidsen in a switch of star sopranos. “Ill health this ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

In Richard Strauss’ opera “Ariadne auf Naxos,” a rich patron whom the audience never meets has hired two performing groups to provide entertainment for a large banquet.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from her planned ...