opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoRichard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos (1912)
libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1988
- Conductor: James Levine
- Director: Bodo Igesz
- Set Designer: Oliver Messel
- Ariadne: Jessye Norman
- Zerbinette: Kathleen Battle
- The Composer: Tatiana Troyanos