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 ...

Seattle Opera's Young Artists return to Bellevue next week in an all-new, fully-staged production of Ariadne auf Naxos. Italian slapstick and classical Greek myth collide in this unique "backstage ...

With shabby-chic sets by Erhard Rom, witty direction by Thaddeus Strassberger and sharp conducting by Timothy Long, the Wolf Trap Opera Company’s wacky new production of Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf ...

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.

No doubt about it. With its production of Richard Strauss’ beguiling 1916 tragicomedy, “Ariadne auf Naxos,” Walnut Creek’s Festival Opera is back on the upswing after some financial reverses. Morgan ...

Our Virginia Opera is currently performing the Richard Strauss opera, “ARIADNE AUF NAXOS” at The Harrison Opera House. This is one heck of a show! The two-act opera is hilarious as it pokes fun at the ...

The Washington National Opera’s production of Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” is simply fabulous. Brilliantly performed and sung and sharply directed, Saturday’s opening-night performance brought ...

LENOX -- A soprano can portray Strauss' Zerbinetta as a dimwit and coquette. At Tanglewood, Audrey Elizabeth Luna is turning her into a three-dimensional woman who becomes the focus of the opera. And ...

We live in the age of the hybrid. Ads abound that boast of products that are the ideal blend of A and B, possessing all the advantages of both without the shortcomings of either. It seems that that’s ...

The Minnesota Opera kicks off its 2015 - 2016 season at the Ordway Music Theater on September 26, 2015, with Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, the company's first production of this meltingly ...