Ariadne auf Naxos

Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy

Scene 1 from the opera "Ariadne auf Naxos", photo 2

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Important Info

Festival: Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2022

Type: Opera

City: Florence, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 30min

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Festival

Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2022

Six operas, 10 symphonic appointments and also a title for children, Ayda: the 84th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival presented the program of its new edition which was held from April 12 to July 15, 2022.

Overview

New staging

Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthall was born as an operatic divertissement for a performance of Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme. The initial project provided for the one-act opera to be performed as a show presented in the palace of the protagonist of the comedy; a perfect example of theater within the theater. In this first form the work began on 25 October 1912 in Stuttgart under the direction of Max Reinhardt. However, the opera was more liked than the comedy and Hugo von Hofmannsthal decided to untie the two parts by giving life to Ariadne, to which he added a Prologue that holds the trick of the theater in the theater and in which the preparations for the show are described.entertainment that a wealthy 18th century Viennese gentleman has decided to offer to his guests in his home. In the new form Ariadne auf Naxos debuted in Vienna on 4 October 1916. In this work Strauss and von Hofmannsthall face the myth of Arianna, which over the centuries had inspired many musicians from Monteverdi onwards, from an ironic and detached perspective, transferring the action in a hybrid dimension in which pathetic and comic elements coexist. The relationship that is established between the two narrative levels at stake - the reality of the Prologue and the artificial reality of the representation - creates a semantic short-circuit underlined by Strauss through the musical parody that feeds on heterogeneous stylistic features coming both from the serious work and from the funny. To make Ariadne's sonic appearance even more original, Strauss then resorted to an unusual orchestral ensemble that includes a baroque orchestra and foreign instruments such as the harp, harmonium, piano and percussion.

History

Premiere of this production: Staatsoper Stuttgart

Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos) is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Combining slapstick comedy and consummately beautiful music, the opera's theme is the competition between high and low art for the public's attention.

Venue Info

Teatro della Pergola - Florence
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The Teatro della Pergola is an historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name. It was built in 1656 under the patronage of Cardinal Gian Carlo de' Medici to designs by the architect Ferdinando Tacca, son of the sculptor Pietro Tacca; its inaugural production was the opera buffa, Il potestà di Colognole by Jacopo Melani. The opera house, the first to be built with superposed tiers of boxes rather than raked semi-circular seating in the Roman fashion, is considered to be the oldest in Italy, having occupied the same site for more than 350 years.

It has two auditoria, the 'Sala Grande', with 1,500 seats, and the 'Saloncino', a former ballroom located upstairs which has been used as a recital hall since 1804 and which seats 400.

Work on completing the interior was finished in 1661, in time for the celebration of the wedding of the future grand duke Cosimo III de' Medici, with the court spectacle Ercole in Tebe by Giovanni Antonio Boretti. Primarily a court theatre used by the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, it was only after 1718 that it was opened to the public. In this theatre the great operas of Mozart were heard for the first time in Italy, and Donizetti’s Parisina and Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Verdi’s Macbeth (1847) and Mascagni’s I Rantzau were given their premiere productions.

By the nineteenth century, La Pergola was performing operas of the best-known composers of the day including Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi's Macbeth was given its premiere performance at the Pergola in 1847.

The Pergola's present appearance dates from an 1855–57 remodelling; it has the traditional horseshoe-shaped auditorium with three rings of boxes and topped with a gallery. It seats 1,000. It was declared a national monument in 1925 and has been restored at least twice since.

Today the theatre presents a broad range of about 250 drama performances each year, ranging from Molière to Neil Simon. Opera is only presented there during the annual Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Tommaso Sacchi is the Chairman of Fondazione Teatro della Toscana - Teatro della Pergola.