This new production of this compelling and intricately crafted collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal opens the 2013 Glyndebourne Festival. In Vladimir Jurowski’s final season as Music Director he conducts his first fully-staged Strauss opera, working with the German director Katharina Thoma, making her UK and Glyndebourne debut.

Cast includes: Thomas Allen, Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke and William Renton. Conducted by Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

We will be live broadcasting this production on June 4 in cinemas in the UK and online available worldwide: http://glyndebourne.com/production/ariadne-auf-naxos

Recorded on location at Glyndebourne May 2013