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Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos (2012)
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...
Updated Aug 23 2016
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Cast
Sophie Koch
Komponist
Christian Thielemann
Conductor
Eike Wilm Schulte
Musiklehrer
Robert Dean Smith
Tenor/Bacchus
Jane Archibald
Zerbinetta
Crew
Brian Large
Director
Richard Strauss
Original Music Composer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Writer
Phillipe Arlaud
Director
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