MET 2021/22 . RICHARD STRAUSS: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

Director: Elijah Moshinsky

Conductor: Marek Janowski
Cast: Lise Davidsen (Ariadne), Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta), Isabel Leonard (Composer), Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Sean Michael Plumb (Harlekin), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Music Master), Sir Thomas Allen (Majordomus)

The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen brings one of her signature roles to the Met for the first time as the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast also features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Brenda Rae as the spirited Zerbinetta, tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus, and Sir Thomas Allen as the Major-Domo. Marek Janowski conducts.

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