About the opera
- Run time: 2hrs 30min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: German
- Subtitles: English, German
- Opera House: Vienna State Opera
The star soprano Anna Netrebko sings the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast also features mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Sara Blanch as the spirited Zerbinetta, and tenor Michael Spyres as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus. Cornelius Meister conducts.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Creators
Born in Munich into a family of musicians, Richard Strauss (1864–1949) began his musical studies at the age of four, began composition studies aged 11 and in 1883 became a protégé of the conductor Hans von Bülow, who encouraged him to study the music of Wagner. Strauss’s early masterpieces include several orchestral tone poems and many songs. Around the end of the 19th century, Strauss turned his attention to opera.
The libretto for Ariadne auf Naxos is by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), with whom Strauss collaborated over the course of 20 years in one of the most remarkable partnerships in the history of opera. Hofmannsthal emerged as a poet and a sophisticated dramatist within the fervent intellectual atmosphere of Vienna at the turn of the last century.
Conductor Cornelius Meister
Der Haushofmeister Bernhard Schir
Ein Musiklehrer Adrian Eröd
Der Komponist Kate Lindsey
Der Tenor (Bacchus) Michael Spyres
Ein Tanzmeister Thomas Ebenstein
Lakai Marcus Pelz
Zerbinetta Sara Blanch
Die Primadonna (Ariadne) Anna Netrebko
Harlekin Jusung Gabriel Park
Scaramuccio Andrea Giovannini
Truffaldin Simonas Strazdas
Brighella Daniel Jenz
Najade Florina Ilie
Dryade Daria Sushkova
Echo Ileana Tonca
