Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

This year we will offer a new creative version of the combination of Molière’s play, Le bourgeois gentilhomme and the opera of Richard Strauss, Ariadne of Naxos.

A group of Commedia dell’arte actors present the ancient Greek story of Ariadne in the form of an opera.

Poor Ariadne is depressed on this lonely island, because Theseus has left her. The actors give her and all of us a lesson what to do, when being abandoned like this. Just wait for the next man to arrive, don’t be depressed, trust your transformation in a new happy life!

In the first half of the evening, the orchestra will play the Suite of Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Richard Strauss and my co-director Chiara d’Anna has created a choreography for the Commedia dell’Arte characters, as they prepare the opera…