Ariadne auf Naxos / 2011
One act opera with prologue
Music by Richard Strauss.
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
The prologue and commedia dell’arte scenes are performed in Russian.
The arias and ensembles are performed in German
Photos © by Natasha Razina
Production
Mariinsky Theatre
Cast
Anna Markarova, Elena Nebera, Yekaterina Popova Olga Pudova, Larisa Yudina, Olga Bobrovskaya, Maria Maksakova, Irina Shishkova, Viktor Lutsyuk, Sergei Skorokhodov, Leonid Zakhozhaev, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (spoken role)
Musical Director and Conductor
Valery Gergiev
Musical Preparation
Larisa Gergieva
Literary Consultant
Derek Weber
Set and Costume designer
Renate Martin & Andreas Donhauser
Stage director
Michael Sturminger