Adriadne Auf Naxos

The music

• Samantha Hankey Adriadne Auf Naxos

The performers

• Robin Ticciati conductor
• Rachel Willis-Sørensen Ariadne
• Alina Wunderlin Zerbinetta
• David Butt Philip Bacchus
• Liam James Karai Truffaldino
• Anna Denisova Naiad
• Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Dryad
• Eirin Rognerud Echo

Sparks fly in this uproarious tussle for centre stage.

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. See full cast and creative team details here.

Sung in German with English supertitles.