Organization

Stage director

Jürgen Pöckel

Conductor

Leo Siberski

Set designer

Andrea Eisensee

Costume designer

Dramaturge

André Meyer

Singer

Baritone

Frank Blees

A music teacher

Soprano

Stephanie Atanasov

The composer

Tenor

Wonjong Lee

The tenor

Bacchus

Alkaios Papagaios

The officer

Marcus Sandmann

The dance master

Bass

Young Chan Cho

The wigmaker

Holger Rieck

A lackey

Nataliia Ulasevych

Zerbinetta

Małgorzata Pawłowska

Ariadne

The prima donna

Sebastian Seitz

Harlequin

Marc-Eric Schmidt

Scaramuccio

Maurice Giancarlo Avitabile

Truffaldin

André Gass

Brighella

Christina Maria Gass

Naiad

Mezzo-soprano

Lena Spohn

Dryad

Sol Her

Echo

Spoken

The majordomo

Theater Plauen-Zwickau

Orchestra

Clara-Schumann-Philharmoniker Plauen-Zwickau

Ariadne auf Naxos -  (Ariadne on Naxos)

Plauen

Germany

Vogtlandtheater Plauen

Zwickau

Gewandhaus Zwickau

Ariadne auf Naxos Strauss,R

Public

Ariadne on Naxos

Approved

A nouveau riche Viennese is planning a big cultural event in his house and has commissioned both a comedy and a tragic opera for it. He arbitrarily decides that both works should be performed at the same time. While the young composer despairs of the decision, the comedienne Zerbinetta accepts the challenge and sums up the following performance of the opera like this: “The play goes like this: A princess has been abandoned by her bridegroom and her next suitor has not yet arrived […] We are a lively company that happens to be on the island […] as soon as an opportunity arises, we appear and get involved in the action.”
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and Richard Strauss interweave in their Ariadne auf Naxosthe tragic sphere of opera seria with elements of Italian impromptu comedy. Strauss not only treats the voices of his singers but also his chamber orchestra with virtuosity, unfolds the magic of sound associated with his name and creates a tongue-in-cheek gem about the effect of theater and music as well as the conflict between pragmatism and idealism as sources of art production.

We offer an introduction to the work in the auditorium 45 minutes before the performance begins.

English

Ariadne on Naxos by Strauss, From (2022/2022), Directed by Jürgen Pöckel,, Conductor Leo Siberski, Vogtlandtheater Plauen, Plauen, Germany

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Cast

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