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By Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 Nentwig, Franz Ferdinand King, James, 1925-2005 Troyanos, Tatiana Battle, Kathleen Norman, Jessye Levine, James, 1943- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 Greenwood, Jane Wechsler, Gil Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978 Igesz, Bodo Upshaw, Dawn Paul, Samuel J Saks, Jay David Gelb, Peter Large, Brian Deutsche Grammophon Video Metropolitan Operac1989., General, Deutsche Grammophon Video Call No: DVD Opera Strauss-Ariadne auf Naxos-1989 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is a play within a play. In the prologue an opera company is preparing to perform for a select audience in the private theater of a wealthy eighteenth-century patron. At his request, a serious and comic opera are now performed simultaneously, the story revolving around the lovesick Ariadne (soprano), whom the frivolous Zerbinetta (soprano) and her three helpers vainly try to cheer and whose joy in life is ultimately reawakened by Bacchus (tenor).