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...doubtful whether Strauss ever expected Ariadne to be a box-office hit. A small-scaled "chamber opera" without a chorus, it uses an orchestra of only 37 instruments, one of them an organ. A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe. The three leading roles, all sopranos, are among the most difficult to sing in all opera...
...Richard Strauss, composer of 15 operas, once called Ariadne auf Naxos his favorite. Until last week New York had never seen it performed professionally. For 30 years in Europe, Ariadne has been a connoisseur's opera, esteemed by musicians and performers, but not by the public, which preferred Strauss's erotic Salome and his opulent Rosenkavalier. Last week in Manhattan, after the 28th curtain call for the New York City Opera Company's first performance of Ariadne, a friend of 82-year-old Composer Strauss cabled...
...title role of Ariadne, Manhattan's up-&-coming City Opera Company cast tall, stately, 38-year-old Ella Flesch, a Hungarian exile who had once been Composer Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
Leverett: re, Butler; rt, Thorn; rg, Max, Carlisle; c, Grant, Strauss; lg, Frank, Connelly; lt, Baker, Hazlitt; le, Duble; backs, Mayer, Schneider, Staples, Hurley, Heller, Bentley...
Boston Symphony--Koussevitzky premieres Aaron Copland's Third Symphony Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, with Erica Morini adding to Tschaikowsky Violin Concerto and Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" concluding the program...