Plot
Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the wealthiest man in Vienna, who has booked both a comedy burlesque act and a serious opera group for entertainment. When the dinner runs long he declares that both forms of entertainment must take place at the same time - much to the chagrin of the opera's proud young composer. Filmed live in Baden-Baden on Feb. 25 by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier triumph. Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden, the orchestra to whom Strauss dedicated his Alpine Symphony and which premiered Feuersnot, Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Daphne.
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Cast
Christian Thielemann
Conductor
Renée Fleming
Ariadne/Prima Donna
Eike Wilm Schulte
Musiklehrer
Sophie Koch
Komponist
Robert Dean Smith
Bacchus/The Tenor
Jane Archibald
Zerbinetta
René Kollo
Haushofmeister
Kevin Conners
Brighella
Steven Humes
Truffaldino
Lenneke Ruiten
Echo
Christina Landshamer
Naiad
Rachel Frenkel
Dryad
Christian Baumgärtel
Tanzmeister
Staatskapelle Dresden
