Scenes from Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos, a 1912 opera) by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, first performed at the Hoftheater Stuttgart, Stuttgart, on 25 October 1912, directed by Max Reinhardt.
The combination of the play and opera proved to be unsatisfactory to the audience: those who had come to hear the opera resented having to wait until the play finished.
Adelaide von Skilondz & Birgit Engell & Margarethe Arndt-Ober (Ariadne Trio)
In London the early version was given eight times at His Majesty's Theatre beginning on 27 May 1913. The Hofmannsthal adaptation of Molière's play was presented in an English translation by W. Somerset Maugham under the title The Perfect Gentleman. The opera was sung in German with Eva von der Osten, Hermine Bosetti and Otakar Marák, conducted by Thomas Beecham.
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