ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

Name: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
Start: 2026-07-19T00:00:00
End: 2026-08-29T23:59:00
Location: Glyndebourne Festival

Glyndebourne

Run Dates

2026.07.19 ~ 2026.08.29

Glyndebourne Festival

Premiere

About the show

The richest man in Vienna has commissioned an evening’s entertainment. But when a tragic opera and a comedy troupe are forced to share the same stage, all bets are off. Strauss’ opera-within-an-opera is part farce, part dream-like fantasy, set to one of his most luscious scores. Laurent Pelly returns to Glyndebourne to direct this new staging, with Robin Ticciati conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The cast includes Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Ariadne, Samantha Hankey as Composer and David Butt Philip as Bacchus. Alina Wunderlin returns to perform another key coloratura role as Zerbinetta, after impressing as Queen of the Night in Festival 24.

Creatives

Laurent Pelly

Director, Costume Designer

Richard Strauss

Composer

Marco Giusti

Lighting Designer

David Butt Philip

Cast(Tenor/Bacchus)

Laurent Pelly

Director, Costume Designer

Richard Strauss

Composer

Marco Giusti

Lighting Designer

David Butt Philip

Cast(Tenor/Bacchus)

Details

RICHARD STRAUSS Director & Costume Designer Laurent Pelly Set Designer Massimo Troncanetti Lighting Designer Marco Giusti London Philharmonic Orchestra Leader Pieter Schoeman The Glyndebourne Chorus CAST Conductor Robin Ticciati Music Master Michael Kraus Major-Domo William Relton Lackey Oliver Williams Officer Owen Lucas Composer Samantha Hankey Tenor/Bacchus David Butt Philip Wigmaker Hector Bloggs Zerbinetta Alina Wunderlin Prima Donna/Ariadne Rachel Willis-Sørensen Dancing Master Ru Charlesworth Naiad Anna Denisova Dryad Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Echo Eirin Rognerud Harlequin/comedian Mikhail Timoshenko Scaramuccio/comedian Caspar Singh Truffaldino/comedian Liam James Karai Brighella/comedian Liam Bonthrone production photo ©Tristram Kenton

Where it's been performed

Glyndebourne Festival

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United Kingdom

Lewes

United Kingdom

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