Organization

Singer

Soprano

Isabel Leonard

The composer

Deanna Breiwick

Naiad

Mezzo-soprano

Tamara Mumford

Dryad

Tenor

Alok Kumar

Scaramuccio

Bass

Ryan Speedo Green

Truffaldin

Miles Mykkanen

Brighella

Patrick Carfizzi

A lackey

Thomas J Capobianco

The officer

Philip Cokorinos

The wigmaker

Brenton Ryan

The dance master

Olivia Vote

Maureen McKay

Echo

Conductor

Marek Janowski

Stage director

Elijah Moshinsky

Set designer

Michael Yeargan

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Gil Wechsler

Lise Davidsen

Ariadne

Brandon Jovanovich

Bacchus

Brenda Rae

Zerbinetta

Baritone

Sean Michael Plumb

Harlequin

Spoken

Wolfgang Brendel

The majordomo

Alexandra Nowakowski

Johannes Martin Kränzle

A music teacher

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Lincoln Center

Music Master/ Teacher

German

Ariadne auf Naxos -  (Ariadne on Naxos)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast for this March 12 transmission also features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Brenda Rae as the spirited Zerbinetta and tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus. Marek Janowski conducts. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Buy tickets for Ariadne auf Naxos live in the opera house here.

While scored for a chamber orchestra, Strauss’s spellbinding tragicomedy Ariadne auf Naxos nonetheless calls for vocal and theatrical forces of epic proportions—which are on full display in this 2022 Live in HD performance. Hailed by The New York Times for possessing a voice with “almost physical presence—pressing against your chest, raising the hairs on the back of your neck,” Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen delivers a career-defining performance in the title role, going head to head with stratospheric soprano Brenda Rae as her comic foil, Zerbinetta. Leading heldentenor Brandon Jovanovich is the mythic hero Bacchus, and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard is the Composer of the opera within an opera around which the story revolves. Maestro Marek Janowski takes the podium to lead Elijah Moshinsky’s stunning production, which also features baritone Sean Michael Plumb as Harlekin, baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle as the Music Master, and baritone Wolfgang Brendel in a cameo appearance as the Major-Domo.

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