Festival della Valle d’Itria | Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss
Data / Ora
Date(s) - 21/07/2020
9:00 pm
Luogo
Palazzo Ducale Martina Franca
Data / Time
Date(s) – 21/07/2020
9:00 pm
Where
Palazzo Ducale Martina Franca
The show is available for free for streaming and on-demand for 48 hours, upon registration, on www.italiafestival.tv
Festival della Valle d’Itria
Martina Franca – Palazzo Ducale
Première
Ariadne on Naxos
by Richard Strauss
Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari
Fabio Luisi conductor
Walter Pagliaro director
Gianni Carluccio scenic elements
Giuseppe Palella costumes
Carmela Remigio Arianna
Piero Pretti Bacco
Jessica Pratt Zerbinetta
Vittorio Prato Arlecchino
Manuel Amati Brighella
Eugenio Di Lieto Truffaldino
Vassily Solodkyy Scaramuccia
Mariam Battistelli Eco
Ana Victoria Pitts Driade
Barbara Massaro Naiade
Ariadne on Naxos – as the other title, Le bourgeois gentilhomme – is the outcome of Richard Strauss’ collaboration with poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. They were presented as a unitary project, with the original combination of the subject taken from Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière and the myth of Ariadne. Both the plays debuted in 1912 at the Court Theatre in Stuttgart, with the direction (and the theatre company) of Max Reinhardt and with Strauss as the conductor; The audience’s reaction towards this work was tepid, and the two pieces were “separated” and revised, thus creating two new successful works and to Ariadne on Naxos was added a prologue.
The 46th Festival della Valle d’Itria develops around the theme of Ariadne, situated between the Baroque world and recuperation of classical culture.
For further information: www.festivaldellavalleditria.it
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