Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

Overview

Flemings voice might have been made for Ariadne and she achieved a great personal triumph in this production: The chief glory of the evening was hearing Renee Fleming, the Straussian soprano par excellence, making her role debut as Ariadne… As the possessor of what is, possibly, the most beautiful soprano voice in the world, she put her vocal treasures in the service of an empathic, nuanced interpretation of the role. From the creamy top, through a rich, warm middle, to the bewitching, darker colours of her lower register, Fleming poured her magnificent sound into Strausss enchanting melodic arcs, animating the sadness, vulnerability, and desire of the bereft princess...

Cast

Renée Fleming

Ariadne

Sophie Koch

Komponist

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Eike Wilm Schulte

Musiklehrer

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Robert Dean Smith

Tenor/Bacchus

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Jane Archibald

Zerbinetta

Christian Thielemann

Conductor

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Staatskapelle Dresden