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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Opera within an opera ends Wolf Trap season If the Three Stooges stumbled into an oh-so-serious performance of Hamlet and carried on as usual alongside the uncomprehending actors, the result would be something akin to Ariadne auf Naxos , the musically and theatrically brilliant work by Richard Strauss that serves as an invigorating finale to Wolf Trap Opera's season.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
T.L. Ponick [Washington Times, 18 August 2008] 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 Naxos" ("Ariadne on Naxos") is an engaging, theatrically over-the-top showcase for the company's incredibly talented young singers.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The Wolf Trap Opera Company's final staged offering of the season -- Richard Strauss's curious opera-within-an-opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" -- is a near-triumph. The company's remarkable young artists presented a vocal feast at Friday's opening at the Barns.
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Civic Center (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
The title for these trio of musings on death, "Totenreich," is taken from an aria in my favorite Richard Strauss opera, "Ariadne auf Naxos." The main action is an opera-within-an-opera about Ariadne being abandoned on the island of Naxos by her lover Theseus, where she sings gorgeously and gloomily in German about how she longs for death. "Es gibt ein Reich, wo alles rein ist:/Es hat auch einen Namen:...
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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos - the last of three new productions featured in this year's Munich Opera Festival - played its final performance in the Prinzregententheater July 30.
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KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Sometimes it’s not over until the not-so-fat lady sings. Superstar soprano Deborah Voigt returned this week to London’s Royal Opera House four years after she was fired for not fitting into a little black dress for the title role of Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.”
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
It's still one of the most expensive scenic tricks the Royal Opera wheels out. In the opening moments of Christof Loy's staging of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, designer Herbert Murauer spirits us to the lobby of some glamorous art deco apartment building, but instead of taking the elevator to the lavish penthouse where our rich patron awaits, we all descend – or rather the entire set ascends – to...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Four years ago Deborah Voigt (pictured), the American opera singer, was fired from the Royal Opera House's production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos for being too fat. Last night,…
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
We've got exclusive photos st8 from London's Royal Opera House showing la Deborah Voigt rawking that little black dress for Christof Loy's production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. As this post goes up, la Voigt is simultaneously strutting her stuff...
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Deborah Voigt returns to the Royal Opera House stage Monday, four years after the company fired her for being too big for the little black dress chosen for the title character in Richard Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos." The decision sparked a fierce debate about weight discrimination in opera.
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Today's Times gives an entertaining account of soprano Deborah Voigt's return to Convent Garden next week to sing the lead in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos , the production she was fired from four years ago when she was deemed too fat to fit into the character's costume: a little black dress. To celebrate her return, Voigt — whose firing resonated with opera fans upset with a perceived trend of singers'...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
Budget classical music label Naxos is named after the Greek island, home to the legend of Ariadne on which Richard Strauss based his opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" in 1912.
