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Dedicated Strauss opera fans will be excited about this: Wolfgang Sawallisch's last performance of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Salzburg Festival, with Edita Gruberová as Zerbinetta and Anna Tomowa-Sintow in the title role. Since it's a live recording from 1982, it won't appeal to everyone, and it can't compete with the several excellent studio recordings that are readily available as a first choice. But there aren't many opportunities to hear Strauss done this well: Sawallisch was among the most experienced...

Product Description: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, based on a work my Moliere and composed by Richard Strauss, draws in viewers to its opera within an opera, hosted by a nouveau riche man who demands a spectacular evening of entertainment for his guests, which includes fireworks and both a comic and tragic opera. As the opera company prepares to take the stage, the "gentilhomme" becomes worried about fitting in all the events, and orders both operas to be staged together. The ensuing chaos finds the tragic...

First presented on Austrian television in 1965, Karl Böhm's staging of Richard Strauss's ARIADNE AUF NAXOS features several 1960s opera stars from the Munich and Stuttgart state operas, as well as the Vienna State Opera. Fully restored with enhanced sound and image quality, this first-time release of the acclaimed television performance will remind viewers of Böhm's ability to capture the comic and the tragic, creating an unsentimental yet effective interpretation of Strauss's masterpiece.

Stage director Claus Guth helmed this December 2006 production of Richard Strauss's opera Ariadne auf Naxos, at the Opernhaus Zurich. Alexander Pereira, Michelle Breedt, Roberto Sacca and Michael Volle star as the principals; The Orchestra of the Zurich Opera, under the leadership of Christoph von Donyanyi, provides musical accompaniment ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos by Karl Bohm on CD Artist: Karl Bohm Number of Discs: 2 UPC: 675754010805 Item Number: QLT401080 Release date: 10/21/2008 Label: Myto Historical Line Genre: Classical Style: Opera Album Time: 116:50

Ariadne auf Naxos (1992 Digital Remaster), PROLOGUE: Die Herrschaften stehen vom Tisch auf! (Lakai/Musiklehrer/Haushofmeis ter/Primadonna/Tanzmeister/Ten or/Zerbinetta/Komponist)

"Sourced from American RCA Victor shellac pressings for ELEKTRA, and HMV test pressings for ARIADNE AUF NAXOS which were unpublished on 78rpm, this Naxos Historical album celebrates the enormous mutual admiration between Richard Strauss and Sir Thomas Beecham. Beecham had introduced Elektra to London in 1910 and presented the first version of Ariadne in London three years later. The recordings heard here of the final scenes from each opera were made almost three decades later following performances...

Alt Title: Wagner: Siegfried Idyll in E WWV103; Wesendonk Lieder WWV91 Length: 74:51 Genre: Orchestra Period: Modern Featured: Richard Hickox Country: United Kingdom Bio: Richard Hickox was one of the most active and well-known conductors in Britain, with a strong international reputation, especially for performing music of his native country. He began conducting at the age of 16 and, after studies at the Royal College of Music and Queen's College, where he was an organ scholar, he founded the City...

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The Wiener Philharmoniker mounted this stage production of Richard Strauss's opera Ariadne auf Naxos , starring Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo and Edita Gruberova. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Karl Böhm, provides symphonic accompaniment. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi All Movie Guide

From the archives of WGBH television comes a historic performance showcasing the US premiere of the original, 1912 version of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Ariadne Auf Naxos. Originally telecast live from Symphony Hall, Boston on January 7, 1969, this once-in-a-lifetime performance features conductor Erich Leinsdorf leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and boasts an impressive cast including Beverly Sills as Zerbinetta (in a performance that brought Sills great acclaim) and Claire...

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, based on a work my Moliere and composed by Richard Strauss, draws in viewers to its opera within an opera, hosted by a nouveau riche man who demands a spectacular evening of entertainment for his guests, which includes fireworks and both a comic and tragic opera. As the opera company prepares to take the stage, the gentilhomme becomes worried about fitting in all the events, and orders both operas to be staged together. The ensuing chaos finds the tragic figure of Ariadne (Susan...

Richard Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos: Emily Magee / Roberto Sacca / Elena Mosuc (Blu-ray)

Beverly Sills, in the role of Zerbinetta, triumphs over the formidable challenges of perhaps the most difficult coloratura role ever written, and Claire Watson is ideal in the title role of Ariadne in this latest installment in VAI’s series of historic telecasts from the archives of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This legendary 1969 concert performance marked the US premiere of the original 1912 version of the opera. The orchestra is under the direction of the BSO’s Music Director Erich Leinsdorf...