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Release date → December 2021
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For the last recording of the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival series, Lothar Koenigs conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s comedy Ariadne auf Naxos. It is the party to end all parties. But two entertainments have been double-booked to mark the evening’s climax – a serious opera and a slapstick comedy. The star soprano is throwing a tantrum and the staff are hiding the chaos from the boss. There is only one solution: perform both shows at the same time. Among the specially selected cast are revered German soprano Dorothea Röschmann as the opera’s wronged heroine, Thomas Quasthoff as the house’s major-domo and prize-winning Scottish singer Catriona Morison as the composer. As an opera within an opera and as a sly commentary on the struggles between high culture and low entertainment, Strauss’s comic creation was far ahead of its time. Bursting with life, vigour and humour, it is also an opera that shows you can rediscover love in even the most unexpected places.
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Release date → December 2021
Stream//Download//Buy → lnk.to/EIF_RichardStrauss_AriadneaufNaxos
For the last recording of the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival series, Lothar Koenigs conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s comedy Ariadne auf Naxos. It is the party to end all parties. But two entertainments have been double-booked to mark the evening’s climax – a serious opera and a slapstick comedy. The star soprano is throwing a tantrum and the staff are hiding the chaos from the boss. There is only one solution: perform both shows at the same time. Among the specially selected cast are revered German soprano Dorothea Röschmann as the opera’s wronged heroine, Thomas Quasthoff as the house’s major-domo and prize-winning Scottish singer Catriona Morison as the composer. As an opera within an opera and as a sly commentary on the struggles between high culture and low entertainment, Strauss’s comic creation was far ahead of its time. Bursting with life, vigour and humour, it is also an opera that shows you can rediscover love in even the most unexpected places.
FACEBOOK→ facebook.com/linnrecordsmusic
TWITTER → twitter.com/LinnRecords
YOUTUBE → youtube.com/user/linnrecordsmusic
WEBSITE → linnrecords.com
#ClassicalMusic #OuthereMusic #LinnRecords
