[Met Performance] CID:220730
Ariadne auf Naxos {17} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/12/1970.


Metropolitan Opera House
March 12, 1970


ARIADNE AUF NAXOS {17}
R. Strauss-Hofmannsthal

Ariadne.................Leonie Rysanek
Bacchus.................James King
Zerbinetta..............Reri Grist
The Composer............Evelyn Lear
Music Master............Walter Berry
Harlekin................Theodor Uppman
Scaramuccio.............Andrea Velis
Truffaldin..............Paul Plishka
Brighella...............Charles Anthony
Najade..................Mary Ellen Pracht
Dryade..................Shirley Love
Echo....................Joy Clements
Major-domo..............Morley Meredith
Officer.................Rod MacWherter
Dancing Master..........Robert Schmorr
Wigmaker................Russell Christopher
Lackey..................Louis Sgarro

Conductor...............Karl Böhm

Director................Carl Ebert
Staged by...............Nikolaus Lehnhoff
Designer................Oliver Messel

Ariadne auf Naxos received five performances this season.

[This was the first performance at the Met with the Prologue sung in the original German.]


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