Ariadne auf Naxos

Conducted by Jessé Martins, Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos is part of the Sarasota Opera’s winter festival season. The German-language work famously clashes high art with low comedy, as a wealthy patron forces an opera company and a commedia dell'arte troupe to perform their pieces simultaneously. The production at the Sarasota Opera House blends the tragic myth of the abandoned Ariadne with the slapstick antics of the clown Zerbinetta.