Name: Ariadne auf Naxos
Start: 2022-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Zanger

Soprano

Isabel Leonard

Der Komponist

Deanna Breiwick

Najade

Mezzo-soprano

Tamara Mumford

Dryade

Tenor

Alok Kumar

Scaramuccio

Bass

Ryan Speedo Green

Truffaldin

Miles Mykkanen

Brighella

Patrick Carfizzi

Ein Lakai

Thomas J Capobianco

Ein Offizier

Philip Cokorinos

Ein Perückenmacher

Brenton Ryan

Ein Tanzmeister

Olivia Vote

Maureen McKay

Echo

Dirigent

Marek Janowski

Regisseur

Elijah Moshinsky

Set designer

Michael Yeargan

Kostuum ontwerper

Licht ontwerper

Gil Wechsler

Lise Davidsen

Ariadne

Brandon Jovanovich

Bacchus

Brenda Rae

Zerbinetta

Baritone

Sean Michael Plumb

Harlekin

Spoken

Wolfgang Brendel

Der Haushofmeister

Alexandra Nowakowski

Johannes Martin Kränzle

Ein Musiklehrer

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Lincoln Center

Music Master/ Teacher

Duits

Ariadne auf Naxos

New York

Verenigde Staten

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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