Open-Door Playhouse will continue its series of short plays in podcast form with the premiere of Buck A Poem, a new play by ...
Emilie Kealani and Adia Evans shine in Merola Opera's exhilarating "Ariadne auf Naxos," a witty collision of tragedy, comedy ...
Merola Opera Program's solid production of Richard Strauss' 1916 "Ariadne auf Naxos," onstage over the weekend at San ...
Laurent Pelly’s penetrating new production for Glyndebourne of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s 1912 oddity paints a vivid picture of the tortured process of creating an opera, the rivalries between artists ...
Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” is an irresistible challenge for a director. This opera-within-an-opera cues up tedious bloviating about the nature of art directly alongside lowbrow slapstick.
Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos tells the story of a wealthy patron hosting an ...
The theater abounds in plays and musicals with backstage settings, depicting a show-within-the-show — and the adventure of making it happen. Yet the format is comparatively rare in opera. Ariadne auf ...