richard strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos
Ariadne auf Naxos recounts the theatre in the theatre, in a symbiosis of mythological drama and art comedy: in the house of a rich Viennese gentleman is planned the staging of the opera seria Ariadne auf Naxos, commissioned to a young and talented composer, followed by an Italian farce. However, time is not enough for both performances, so the host orders that the serious work and the farce are represented together.
20 | 22 | 25 | 27 March 2022
Teatro Comunale
New production of TCBO
with the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo
CONDUCTOR
DIRECTOR
CAST
ARIADNE
Dorothea Röschmann
BACCUS
Daniel Kirch
ZERBINETTA
Olga Pudova
ARLECCHINO
Tommaso Barea
SCARAMUCCIO
Mathias Frey
TRUFFALDINO
Vladimir Sazdovski
BRIGHELLA
Carlos Natale
COMPOSER
Victoria Karkacheva
THE MASTER OF MUSIC
Markus Werba
IIL MASTER OF DANCE
Cristiano Olivieri
HAIRDRESSER
Riccardo Fioratti
SERVANT
Maurizio Leoni
AN OFFICIER
Paolo Antognetti
NAJADE
Nofar Yacobi
THE BULTER
Franz Tscherne
DRIADE
Adriana Di Paola
ECHO
Chiara Notarnicola
SCENES AND COSTUMES
Gary McCann
LIGHTS
Howard Hudson
DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT
Oscar Cecchi
DESIGN ASSISTANT
Eleonora De Leo
COSTUME ASSISTANT
Stefania Scaraggi
20 | 22 | 25 | 27 March 2022
Teatro Comunale
COMPOSER
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (1864 – 1949) was a German composer and conductor of the late Oman period, best known for his symphonic poems, including Also sprach Zarathustra (1896), and his operas.
His true international triumph and fame as an operatic composer came with Salome (1905) and Elektra (1909), the first opera that saw the collaboration between Strauss and the writer and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and with the subsequent Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Ariadne auf Naxos (1912/16) and Capriccio (1942).