Do not book an eco-polluting flight to Europe or the US in search of top-class singers in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. If you ...

Laurent Pelly’s new production of Ariadne auf Naxos is a huge improvement on the staging it replaces. While there are a few ...

Laurent Pelly’s penetrating new production for Glyndebourne of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s 1912 oddity paints a vivid picture ...

Richard Strauss's opera within an opera, Ariadne aux Naxos, is a curious beast: a hybrid of spoken word and singing, a mix of ...

The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but there’s few insights in a work that should be moving as well as frothy and fun.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strauss's opera is streaming here on the Guardian from 7pm on 4 June. New to the piece? Gen up on it with Tom Service's guide to Strauss's rich and masterful mix of musical smoke and mirrors. (All ...