[Met Performance] CID:256560
Ariadne auf Naxos {27} Metropolitan Opera House: 02/17/1979.

(Debut: Joseph Frank)


Metropolitan Opera House
February 17, 1979


ARIADNE AUF NAXOS {27}
R. Strauss-Hofmannsthal

Ariadne.................Leontyne Price
Bacchus.................René Kollo
Zerbinetta..............Edita Gruberova
The Composer............Tatiana Troyanos
Music Master............John Shirley-Quirk
Harlekin................Lenus Carlson
Scaramuccio.............Charles Anthony
Truffaldin..............Philip Booth
Brighella...............Jon Garrison
Najade..................Alma Jean Smith
Dryade..................Jean Kraft
Echo....................Betsy Norden
Major-domo..............Nico Castel
Officer.................Paul Franke
Dancing Master..........Joseph Frank [Debut]
Wigmaker................Russell Christopher
Lackey..................Andrij Dobriansky

Conductor...............James Levine

Director................Bodo Igesz
Set designer............Oliver Messel
Costume designer........Jane Greenwood

Ariadne auf Naxos recevied seven performances this season.


Photograph of Edita Gruberova as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Winnie Klotz/Metropolitan Opera.


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