‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ from Glyndebourne

Live at the BBC Proms: Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducted by Robin Ticciati in a semi-staged performance of Strauss's opera within an opera, Ariadne auf Naxos.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos part 1 (Prologue)

c.7.40pm
Interval: The classicist and author Emily Hauser joins Andrew to explore the mythology behind Ariadne, re-examine the agency of women in the literature of antiquity, and consider how stories that have long been told through the actions of men might be recovered through the women who shaped their fates.

c.8.00pm
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos part 2

Rachel Willis-Sørensen - Ariadne
David Butt Philip - Bacchus
Alina Wunderlin - Zerbinetta
Mikhail Timoshenko - Harlequin
Caspar Singh - Scaramuccio
Liam James Karai - Truffaldino
Liam Bonthrone - Brighella
Samantha Hankey - Composer
Michael Kraus - Music Master
Ru Charlesworth - Dancing Master
Anna Denisova - Naiad
Ekaterina Chayka Rubinstein - Dryad
Eirin Rognerud - Echo
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Robin Ticciati (conductor)

The richest man in Vienna has commissioned an evening’s entertainment. But when an opera and a comedy troupe are forced to share the same stage, all bets are off. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos is part farce, part dream-like fantasy, set to one of the composer’s most luscious scores. It comes fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival, performed complete at the Proms for the first time in nearly half a century.