Ariadne auf Naxos at Zuiderstrand Theatre

Dates: (10/1/2016 )

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Zuiderstrand Theatre

Houtrustweg 505
Den Haag,South Holland 2583 WB

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HOMAGE TO RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most beloved operas by Richard Strauss. offers everything that a good opera with its sophisticated orchestration, glossy vocal parts and different storylines. The first performance was on October 4, 1916 in Vienna. The Dutch Touring Opera presents 100 years later this opera as an homage to Richard Strauss. The artistic team is the same as the successful Touring Opera production The Barber of Seville in 2013.

DIRECTOR LAURENCE DALE
It is very good news that director Laurence Dale and set and costume designer Gary McCann will shape this production. They form a golden duo. They spent the Reisopera recently Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Madama Butterfly on the shelves, two productions are hailed as highlights of the season.

THE STORY
The richest man male from Vienna wants his guests after dinner a serious opera, a farce and a fireworks show voorschotelen. The evening walk out. The singers and the actors are instructed to combine their performances. Hastily the composer is trying to organize one last rehearsal with his singers. Zerbinetta, which directs the farce, to throw her feminine charm in the battle to find out what the opera is about. The composer brings her informed: Ariadne abandoned by Theseus and wait for the island of Naxos on her death. Zerbinetta decides to give a twist to the story. When the curtain rises and the opera begins, Zerbinetta and her colleagues try to cheer up the sad Ariadne. It is in vain. But Ariadne god Bacchus and to the delight of Zerbinetta appears appears to give up her longing for death and surrender to love.

Authors

Hugo Von Hofmannstahl
Richard Strauss

Cast and Creative team for Ariadne auf Naxos at Zuiderstrand Theatre

Antonino Fogliani - Musical Director
Laurence Dale - Director
Gary McCann - Set and costume design
Thomas Hase - Lighting design
Thomas Bergmann - Video Design
Sjoerd Vreugdenhil - Choreography

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