StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos
01/01/2013
Glyndebourne's wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which low comedy and high tragedy compete for our attention, "borne aloft by Strauss's divine music and Hofmannsthal's visionary poetry". At the centre of this production from Katharina Thoma is the noble, tragic figure of the abandoned Ariadne herself, in a haunting performance from Soile Isokoski, 'with brilliant support from the pit' (The Independent).
Movie Information
Soile Isokoski
as Ariadne / Prima Donna
Kate Lindsey
as Composer
Laura Claycomb
as Zerbinetta
Sergei Skorokhodov
as Bacchus / Tenor
Thomas Allen
as Music Master
Dmitri Vargin
as Harlekin
Ana Maria Labin
as Naiade
Adriana Di Paola
as Dryade
Gabriela Iştoc
as Echo
Guy De Mey
as Dancing Master
