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 ...

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 ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues Feb. 15 with an artist’s choice broadcast selected by soprano Lise Davidsen in honor of diva Jessye ...

Violeta Urmana and Joyce DiDonato star in Strauss's brilliant opera-within-an-opera. Fabio Luisi conducts Elijah Moshinsky's witty production. Violeta Urmana and Joyce DiDonato star in Strauss's ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. It's serious! It's hilarious! It's Richard Strauss' delightful "Ariadne auf Naxos," and it's the penultimate offering of Winter ...

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.

Opera enthusiasts in Israel have a treat in store this May as the Israeli Opera presents Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Performing Arts Center in Tel Aviv. This production, running from ...

Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from her planned role debut in Strauss' “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Vienna State Opera and been replaced by Lise Davidsen in a switch of star sopranos.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

In the early 20th century, Richard Strauss shocked theatre-goers with two one-act operas, Salome and Elektra, that to an unprecedented degree conveyed heightened emotions by means of wild, ...

Violeta Urmana and Joyce DiDonato star in Strauss's brilliant opera-within-an-opera. Fabio Luisi conducts Elijah Moshinsky's witty production. Violeta Urmana and Joyce DiDonato star in Strauss's ...